14 Bible Verses about Corpses Of Animals
Most Relevant Verses
If one man's ox hurt another's that he die: then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money, and the dead ox also they shall divide.
the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto their master, and the dead beast shall be his.
But and if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time's past, then because his master hath not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own."
Of their flesh see that ye eat not, and their carcasses see that ye touch not for they are unclean to you.
See that ye eat not of their flesh, and also that ye abhor their carcasses:
These are unclean to you among all that move, and all that touch them when they be dead, shall be unclean until the evening.
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."
And within a short space after, as he went thither again to take her to wife, he turned out of the way, to see the carcass of the Lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees in the carcass of the Lion and honey.
And whatsoever soul it be that eateth that which died alone or that which was torn with wild beasts: whether it be one of yourselves or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean unto the even, and then is he clean.
Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayest sell it unto an Alien. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
And within there were hooks four fingers broad, fastened round about, to hang flesh upon, and upon the tables was laid the offering flesh.
Then took I heed there unto, because of the voice of the proud words, which the horn spake. I beheld, till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given over to be burnt in the fire.
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest to purge sin, are burnt without the tents.