Thematic Bible: Unclean


Thematic Bible



Tell the Israelites: 'Here are the kinds of land animals you may eat: You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud.

All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that do not chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean. Verse ConceptsSanitation, FoodTouching Unclean ThingsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals Eat

You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Never eat rock badgers. Rock badgers are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. You must never eat rabbits. Rabbits are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. read more.
Never eat pigs. Pigs have completely divided hoofs but do not chew their cud. They are also unclean. Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.

Leave this place and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and all the places near there in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates. I have given you this land. Go in and possess the land Jehovah pledged to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants (offspring) after them.'

You must never eat rabbits. Rabbits are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animals

Do not eat of these that chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan. Even though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof. They are unclean for you. Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsRock BadgerUnclean Animals

Swords will cut them down. Their dead bodies will be left as food for jackals.

Sustain me with raisin cakes. Refresh me with apples: for I am lovesick. Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Verse ConceptsCamelsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animals

Rebecca saw Isaac and she got down from her camel Verse ConceptsDismountingSeeing People

People make themselves holy and prepare themselves for their garden rituals. They go into the garden and devour pork, disgusting things, and mice. They will come to an end at the same time, declares Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAbominationsGarden, NaturalAbominations, Ceremonial MattersMiceSwineAbstaining From MeatsDesecrationPeople EndedForbidden FoodEating Meatpork

The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you: the weasels, mole rats, mice, and all types of lizards, Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfMiceAccording To Its KindLizardsMolesMany CreaturesKinds Of Living Things

Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom ordered. Then all the king's sons got up, mounted their mules, and fled. Verse ConceptsMulesBackAnimals, Types OfRiding Mules

Everyone took presents such as vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year. Verse ConceptsMulesGiftsHerbs And SpicesRobesUnceasingAlways Being ActivePeople Giving ClothesAcquiring Horses

Never eat rock badgers. Rock badgers are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatRock BadgerUnclean Animals

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. Verse ConceptsBadgersWild GoatRock Badger

geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

That day people will throw their silver and gold idols, that they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and the bats. Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAnimals, Types OfBatsMolesAbandoning Idols

Never eat pigs. Pigs have completely divided hoofs but do not chew their cud. They are also unclean. Verse ConceptsSwineAbstaining From MeatsPigsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animalspork

People make themselves holy and prepare themselves for their garden rituals. They go into the garden and devour pork, disgusting things, and mice. They will come to an end at the same time, declares Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAbominationsGarden, NaturalAbominations, Ceremonial MattersMiceSwineAbstaining From MeatsDesecrationPeople EndedForbidden FoodEating Meatpork

rams' skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood, Verse ConceptsRamsAnimals, Types OfDyeingAnimal SkinsRed Material

I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. Verse ConceptsBarefeetCoveringBadgersClothembroideryLinenSandalsShoesAnimal SkinsGod Clothing PeopleThe Brides Wedding Dressroyalty

Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey. He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him. He had cut the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out for the place that God had told him about. Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

He told them, Go to the nearby town and look for a donkey with a cord around her neck. There will be a young one with her. Turn them loose and bring them to me. Verse ConceptsDonkeysRopesAnimal OffspringOpposite SidesEntering CitiesFinding ThingsBinding As Animals

Each governor also supplied his share of barley and straw as needed for the chariot horses and the work animals. Verse ConceptsGrainFeeding Animals

The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses: Verse ConceptsMulesSealing The MessageRiding Horses

The hired man owns no sheep. He is not the shepherd. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep. The wolf snatches them, and scatters them. Verse ConceptsSatan, Compared With AnimalsUnfaithful MinistersScattered Like SheepMen Similar To AnimalsWolvesPeople Abandoning People

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning and evening he destroys his enemies. Verse ConceptsWolvesIn The MorningDividing PlunderFierce Men

You are to be my holy people. Do not eat any flesh torn to bits in the field. Throw it to the dogs. Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofdogsPeople Of God, In OtAnimals, Types OfAnimals Torn To PiecesA Holy NationForbidden FoodPets

He said: 'Is it true what I hear about you? Give me a complete accounting of your management of my property for you may not be my manager any longer.' Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningPropertyaccounting

Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder? Verse ConceptsGrassWild DonkeysNeighing And BrayingWisdomlegacy

Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey? Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling? He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver. read more.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon! Look from the peak of Mount Amana, from the peak of Mount Shenir and Mount Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. Verse ConceptsLeopard

If it is an unclean animal that cannot be brought to Jehovah as an offering, bring it in front of the priest.

The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you: the weasels, mole rats, mice, and all types of lizards, Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfMiceAccording To Its KindLizardsMolesMany CreaturesKinds Of Living Things

geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfLizards

All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that do not chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean. Verse ConceptsSanitation, FoodTouching Unclean ThingsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals Eat

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. Verse ConceptsLivestockCarcass, Literal UseContaminationIgnorance Of EvilPeople Being PollutedRules About CorpsesGuiltpork

Every firstborn male, human or animal that is brought to Jehovah is yours. But you must buy back every firstborn son and the firstborn male of any unclean animal. Verse ConceptsFirstbornAnimals, religious role ofWomb

God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull. Verse ConceptsHorns VictoriousWild OxGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicornsGuidance And Strength

You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others. Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeBearsBereavementFierce MenReady For War

Samson went to Timnah with his father and mother. When they traveled through the vineyards he heard a young lion roaring. Suddenly the power of Jehovah made Samson strong. He tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.

For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks. Verse ConceptsGoldIvorySilverCommerceThree YearsShips For TradingEvery Three YearsTrade With MetalsPetssailing

Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle. read more.
It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and does not back away from swords. A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin. Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and does not trust the sound of the ram's horn. As often as the horn sounds, the horse says: Aha! And it smells the battle far away; the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries.

Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you. It feeds on grass as cattle do. Verse ConceptsCreation, Origin OfGrassAnimals EatingDinosaursmuscles


No bird of prey knows the way to it. No hawk's eye has ever seen it. Verse ConceptsVulturesFalconsUnknown ThingsBirds

Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate. Verse ConceptsNestsWingsVulturesFalcons

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, Verse ConceptsAbominationsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesForbidden FoodHating UncleannessBirdsfitness

little owls, cormorants, great owls, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOwls

little owls, cormorants, great owls, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOwls

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it. Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment


Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree. Verse ConceptsNestsBirds, Types Of BirdsBirds

swans, pelicans, ospreys, Verse ConceptsWhiteVulturesOwlsPelicans

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places. Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBirds, Types Of BirdsOwlsPelicans

That day people will throw their silver and gold idols, that they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and the bats. Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAnimals, Types OfBatsMolesAbandoning Idols


Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it. Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment

I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken. Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, Verse ConceptsAbominationsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesForbidden FoodHating UncleannessBirdsfitness

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high? Verse ConceptsNestsCommands, in OTBirds, Types Of BirdsEaglessoaring

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? Verse ConceptsRavensGod, The ProviderBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsGod's ProvisionAnimals, God's Care OfGod Feeds All The Earthwandering


little owls, cormorants, great owls, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOwls

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? Verse ConceptsSouthBirds, Types Of BirdsHawksFacing SouthFalconsflyingsoaring


I am a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOstricheslonliness

For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks. Verse ConceptsGoldIvorySilverCommerceThree YearsShips For TradingEvery Three YearsTrade With MetalsPetssailing

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceWingsWings Of BirdsFeathersOstriches

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceWingsWings Of BirdsFeathersOstriches

When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider. Verse ConceptsLaughterSpeed

and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesFalconsKinds Of Living Things

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, Verse ConceptsAbominationsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesForbidden FoodHating UncleannessBirdsfitness

little owls, cormorants, great owls, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOwls

swans, pelicans, ospreys, Verse ConceptsWhiteVulturesOwlsPelicans

little owls, cormorants, great owls, Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsOwls


Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, Verse ConceptsAbominationsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesForbidden FoodHating UncleannessBirdsfitness




swans, pelicans, ospreys, Verse ConceptsWhiteVulturesOwlsPelicans


You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Verse ConceptsCamelsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animals

Do not eat of these that chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan. Even though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof. They are unclean for you. Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsRock BadgerUnclean Animals



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. Verse ConceptsLivestockCarcass, Literal UseContaminationIgnorance Of EvilPeople Being PollutedRules About CorpsesGuiltpork

Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you. Verse ConceptsAbominationsClean And UncleanGod Hating Thingsbugs

The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you: the weasels, mole rats, mice, and all types of lizards, geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons. Of all the swarming creatures that move on the ground, these are unclean for you. He who touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening. read more.
When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. It will then be clean again. If any of these creatures falls into a piece of pottery, break the pottery because everything in it is unclean. If water from that pottery touches any food, the food is unclean. Any liquid that you drink from that pottery is unclean. Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you. A spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean. If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean. If water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you. When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening. Those who eat any of its dead body must wash their clothes. They will be unclean until evening. Those who carry its dead body away will wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. Any creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting and must not be eaten. Do not eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting. Do not become disgusting by eating anything that swarms on the ground. Do not allow yourselves to become unclean because of them. The reason is because I am Jehovah your God. You must live holy lives. Consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Never become unclean by touching anything that swarms or crawls on the ground.

And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them. Verse ConceptsInsectsClean And Uncleanbugs

He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores. Verse ConceptsdogsTablesTongueCrumbsSeeking FoodRemaining FoodPetsAbscessFeeding The Poorlazarus

It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire. Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, Verse ConceptsAbominationsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsVulturesForbidden FoodHating UncleannessBirdsfitness

These are the ones you should not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, Verse ConceptsEaglesVultures


and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, Verse ConceptsHornsHawksFalconsOstrichesOwlsSeagullsKinds Of Living Things

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? Verse ConceptsSouthBirds, Types Of BirdsHawksFacing SouthFalconsflyingsoaring

the swan, the great owl, the white owl, Verse ConceptsOwls

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, little owls, cormorants, great owls,


You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs. Verse ConceptsCamelsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animals


He must not eat the meat of any animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild animals. It will make him unclean. I am Jehovah. Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofAnimals Torn To PiecesDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsI Am The LordForbidden Foodnatural DeathDeath Of A Family MemberEating Meat



Do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you. Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean AnimalsFish

She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine. She must not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. She must do everything I told her to do. Verse ConceptsStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenDrinking No WineAlcoholic Beverages

Do not eat any detestable thing. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope (chamois) and the mountain sheep. read more.
You may eat any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud. Do not eat of these that chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan. Even though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof. They are unclean for you. The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. Do not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses. These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat. Do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you. You may eat any clean bird. These are the ones you should not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, and every raven in its kind, and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, the swan, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them. You may eat any clean bird.