Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Put difference
Abominable
General references
Bible References
Put difference
Deuteronomy 14:3
“You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the Lord and forbidden by Him].
Acts 10:11
and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet descending, lowered by its four corners to the earth,
Ephesians 5:7
So do not participate or even associate with them [in the rebelliousness of sin].
Abominable
Leviticus 11:43
Do not make yourselves loathsome (impure, repulsive) by [eating] any swarming thing; you shall not make yourselves unclean by them so as to defile yourselves.
General references
Leviticus 10:10
and to make a distinction and recognize a difference between the holy (sacred) and the common (profane), and between the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean;
Deuteronomy 14:3
“You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the Lord and forbidden by Him].
1 Samuel 8:20
so that we too may be like all the nations [around us], that our king may judge [and govern] us and go out before us and fight our battles.”