NITHYAM SONGSLeviticus 11
World English Bible (WEB) • 47 verses
1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
RelatedMatthew 15:11 · Hebrews 9:10 · Leviticus 11:11 · Leviticus 11:41-44 · Romans 14:14-15 · Leviticus 11:4
3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
Related2 Corinthians 6:17 · Proverbs 2:10 · Deuteronomy 6:6-7 · Psalms 1:1-2 · Deuteronomy 16:3-8 · Proverbs 9:6
4“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
5The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
RelatedPsalms 104:18 · Proverbs 30:26 · Job 36:14 · Philippians 3:18-19 · Titus 1:16 · 2 Timothy 3:5
6The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 14:7
7The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.
8You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
RelatedHebrews 9:10 · Colossians 2:16 · Leviticus 5:2 · Isaiah 52:11 · Hosea 9:3 · 1 Corinthians 8:8
9“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
10All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
RelatedProverbs 29:27 · Leviticus 7:18 · Proverbs 13:20 · Psalms 139:21-22 · Deuteronomy 14:3 · Revelation 21:8
11and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.
12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.
13“‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
RelatedMatthew 24:28 · Hosea 8:1 · Lamentations 4:19 · Romans 1:28-32 · Jeremiah 4:22 · Jeremiah 48:40
14the red kite, any kind of black kite,
15any kind of raven,
16the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
RelatedPhilippians 3:18-19 · Deuteronomy 14:15-18 · Ephesians 2:2-3 · John 3:19-21 · Ephesians 5:7-11 · Ephesians 4:18-19
17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
RelatedJude 1:19 · Leviticus 11:23 · Matthew 6:24 · 2 Kings 17:28-41 · Deuteronomy 14:19 · 2 Timothy 4:10
21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.
22Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
23But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.
24“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
RelatedIsaiah 22:14 · Hebrews 9:26 · Ephesians 5:11 · Colossians 2:16-17 · 1 John 1:7 · Colossians 2:20
25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
RelatedLeviticus 15:5 · Numbers 31:24 · Leviticus 14:8 · Leviticus 11:40 · Leviticus 16:28 · Numbers 19:10
26“‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
27Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
RelatedLeviticus 11:24-25
29“‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
RelatedLeviticus 11:41-42 · Psalms 10:3 · Haggai 2:6 · Psalms 17:13-14 · Philippians 3:19 · Hebrews 13:5
30the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
32Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
33Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.
RelatedLeviticus 6:28 · Leviticus 15:12 · Leviticus 11:35 · Philippians 3:21 · Jeremiah 48:38 · Leviticus 14:45
34All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
RelatedLeviticus 11:28 · Numbers 19:11 · Leviticus 11:40 · Leviticus 11:24 · Leviticus 15:7 · Leviticus 11:31
40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
RelatedLeviticus 22:8 · Ezekiel 44:31 · Deuteronomy 14:21 · Exodus 22:31 · Ezekiel 4:14 · Isaiah 1:16
41“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.
44For I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
RelatedExodus 20:2 · 1 Peter 1:15-16 · Leviticus 19:2 · Leviticus 20:7 · Leviticus 20:26 · 1 Thessalonians 4:7
45For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
RelatedLeviticus 11:44 · Exodus 20:2 · Exodus 6:7 · 1 Peter 1:16 · 1 Thessalonians 4:7 · Psalms 105:43-45
46“‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”
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