Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
General references
Bible References
General references
Exodus 22:31
And you will be men of holiness for me; and you will not eat meat [from] a carcass mangled in the field; you will throw it to the dog.
Leviticus 17:15
"And [if there is] any person who eats a dead body or a mangled carcass, [whether] among the native or among the alien, then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash [himself] with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus 22:8
He shall not eat a [naturally] dead body or a mangled carcass, {so that he becomes unclean} by it; I [am] Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 14:21
"You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who [is] in your {towns}, and he may eat it, or you may sell [it] to a foreigner, for you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All [things] [are] clean, but [it is] wrong for the person {who eats and stumbles in the process}.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat {forever}, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.