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
"You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
Leviticus 17:15
"'Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
Leviticus 22:8
He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.