Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
They are unclean
General references
Bible References
They are unclean
Leviticus 5:2
If you touch anything unclean such as an unclean dead body of a wild or tame animal or the body of an unclean, swarming creature and then ignore what you did, you are unclean and will be guilty.
Isaiah 52:11
Get out of her my people! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of Jehovah.
Hosea 9:3
The people of Ephraim will not stay in Jehovah's land. They will return to Egypt and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Matthew 15:11
That which comes out of the mouth makes a man unclean, not that which goes into the mouth.
Mark 7:2
They saw that some of his disciples ate their bread with unwashed defiled hands.
Acts 10:10
He became very hungry. While the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance.
Acts 15:29
You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).
Romans 14:14
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. If someone thinks something is unclean it is unclean to him.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)
Ephesians 5:7
Do not be partakers with them.
Colossians 2:16
Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
Hebrews 9:10
since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time comes to change them for something better.
General references
Leviticus 11:24
Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening.