17 Bible Verses about Eating Forbidden Food

But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

And he said: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened. Then you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Adam said: The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.

Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: What is this you have done? The woman answered: The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

Do not eat any detestable thing.

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.

When you come into the land and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you must not eat the fruit for the first three years.

Do not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day. Then bring the offering to your God. It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live.

Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men.

You will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

You will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk; from my sacrifice I have sacrificed for you.'

And I will remove his blood from his mouth, and his detestable things from between his teeth. He will remain for our God. He will be like a chieftain in Judah, and in Ekron like a Jebusite.

Whoever lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house must wash his clothes.

You eat the best parts of the sheep, dress in the wool, and butcher the finest sheep. Yet, you do not take care of the sheep.