Leviticus 11:2

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Summary

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

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Ye shall eat no manner of abomination.

Then said I, "O LORD God: Behold, my soul was yet never stained, for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth."

But Daniel was at a point with himself, that he would not be defiled through the king's meat, nor the wine which he drunk. And this he desired of the chief chamberlain, lest he should defile himself.

That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man: but that which cometh out of the mouth, defileth the man."

There is nothing without a man that can defile him when it entereth into him, but those things which proceed out of him are those which defile the man.

wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth and vermin and worms, and fouls of the air.

One believeth that he may eat all things. Another, which is weak, eateth herbs.

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

with meats only and drinks, and divers washings, and justifyings of the flesh, which were ordained until the time of reformation.

Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.