45 Bible Verses about Forbidden Food

Tell the Israelites: 'Never eat any fat from bulls, sheep, or goats.

The fat from an animal that dies naturally or is killed by wild animals you may use for any other purpose. However, you must not eat it.

Those who eat the fat from an animal they sacrificed by fire to Jehovah must be excluded from the people.

You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.

Those who eat any blood must be excluded from the people.'

That is why I have said to the people of Israel: 'Neither you nor foreigners should ever eat blood.'

Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Never cast evil spells, and never consult fortunetellers.

Never eat the blood. Pour it on the ground like water.

Make sure you never eat blood, because blood contains life. Never eat the life with the meat.

If you do not eat blood, things will go well for you and your descendants. You will be doing what Jehovah considers right.

Do not eat its blood! Pour it out on the ground like water.

If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people.

This is because the life of any creature is in its blood. So I have said to the people of Israel: 'Never eat any blood, because the life of any creature is in its blood. Whoever eats blood must be excluded from the people.'

This is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. Never eat any fat or blood.'

If you eat any of it on the third day, it is repulsive and will not be accepted.

If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

You are to be my holy people. Do not eat any flesh torn to bits in the field. Throw it to the dogs.

Native Israelites or foreigners who eat the body of an animal that dies naturally or is killed by another animal must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

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.

Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

But I replied: No, O Lord Jehovah! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.

The priests must never eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or was killed by other wild animals.'

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.

Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.

They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive.

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

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.

The flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten. It should be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

They sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil. They eat the flesh of pigs. Their pots are full of unclean meat.

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.

In it were all kinds of animals, reptiles and birds.

I looked in it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things and birds of the air.

The king assigned a daily amount of the king's special rich food for them and also the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years. At the end of that time they would serve the king.

Daniel determined in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's special food and wine. He requested permission from the officer in charge that he might not defile himself.

Test your servants, please, for ten days. Give them vegetables to eat and water to drink. You compare our appearance and the appearance of the young people who eat the king's special food. Then you deal with us according to what you see. So he listened to them and allowed them to prove the matter for ten days.read more.
They looked better when the ten days ended! They were fairer in appearance and fatter in flesh than the young people who ate the king's special food. So the steward took away their special food and wine and gave them vegetables and water.

Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.

But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.

I said, 'No Lord, for nothing defiled or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.'

Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh (the sinew) attached to the hip socket. This is because God touched the socket of Jacob's thigh at the muscle.

They grabbed the food they had captured from the Philistines and started eating. They even killed sheep and cows and calves right on the ground and ate the meat without draining the blood.

Someone told Saul: The army is disobeying Jehovah by eating meat before the blood drains out. You are right, Saul answered. They are being unfaithful to Jehovah! Hurry! Roll a big rock over here.

Then tell everyone in camp to bring their cattle and lambs to me. They can kill the animals on this rock and then eat the meat. That way no one will disobey Jehovah by eating meat with blood still in it. That night the people brought their cattle over to the big rock and killed them there.