Deuteronomy 14:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not eat any detestable thing.”
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BSBPD
“You must not eat any detestable thing.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 14:3 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:43Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
- Leviticus 20:25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
- Isaiah 65:4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
- Ezekiel 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
- Acts 10:12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- 1 Corinthians 10:28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—
- Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
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