17 Bible Verses about Eating Forbidden Food

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."

So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."

You must not eat any forbidden thing.

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

"'When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

Groan in silence for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others."

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!