Leviticus 11:8

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Summary

Leviticus 11:8

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

They are unclean

General references

Leviticus 11:24

Bible References

They are unclean

Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

Depart, depart, go out from there,

Touch nothing unclean;

Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the Lord.

They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

“Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.
“And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you.

Therefore do not be partakers with them;

Therefore no one is to

act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

General references

‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,