14 Bible Verses about Corpses Of Animals
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“If one man’s ox injures another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the proceeds equally; they shall also divide the dead ox [between them].
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to the animal’s owner, but the dead [animal] shall be his.
Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he must make restitution of ox for ox, and the dead [animal] shall be his.
You shall not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
They shall be hated things to you. You may not eat their meat; you shall detest their carcasses.
These [creatures] are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
But I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold (hear me), I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died on its own or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”
When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.
Every person who eats an animal which dies [of natural causes] or was torn by a predator, whether he is native-born or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be [ceremonially] unclean until evening; then he will become clean.
He shall not eat that which dies [of natural causes] or is torn by a predator, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.
“You shall not eat anything that dies on its own. You may give it to the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your [city] gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner [since they are not under God’s law], but you are a people holy (set apart) to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat or a lamb in its mother’s milk.
The double hooks, one hand width in length were installed in the house all around. The meat of the offering was [to be placed] on the tables.
Then I kept looking because of the sound of the great and boastful words which the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to be burned with fire.
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.
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