Leviticus 11

¹⁰They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

¹¹They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

¹¹A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

³You must not eat any detestable thing.

⁴These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

⁸But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

³⁴Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

¹¹Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

³You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

⁴No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

⁶Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

⁶These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

⁷And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

²⁶the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

²⁶But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

¹⁸if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

¹⁹if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

⁵having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

¹⁴They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

⁷But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

¹⁷“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the Lord.

⁴sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

⁸as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

³Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

³³Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

¹⁵So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

¹⁶Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

¹⁰They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

³They will not remain in the land of the Lord; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

²Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

¹¹Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

¹⁰He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

¹¹He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

⁹Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

¹⁰but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

²¹testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

²By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.

²⁷An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

¹⁸If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

²⁰He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

³You must not eat any detestable thing.

²¹Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord, and detest those who rise against You?

²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

⁸But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

³For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

¹⁹Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

¹³Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

¹³“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

¹⁴“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

¹Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the Lord, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

²⁹They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

²⁴Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

⁴And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

¹⁷As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

⁶The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

⁷and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

²And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

¹⁹And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

²in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

³All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

¹⁸For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

¹⁹Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

⁵For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

⁶So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

¹⁵the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

¹⁶the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

²⁷All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁸Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the Lord.

²⁹Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

¹⁹All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

²³All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.

¹⁸For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

¹⁹Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

⁶John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

⁴John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

⁴But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

⁵They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

³Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

¹²Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹³Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

¹¹We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

³¹These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

¹⁵And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

¹⁶But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

³³Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

⁷But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

⁸You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

⁸The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

²⁴On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

⁵Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁰Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

²⁸The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

¹⁰The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

²³All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.

²⁴These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁵and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁴¹Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

⁴²Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.

⁵Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

¹⁷“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the Lord.

⁵Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹⁴The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

³For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.

²⁴These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁵and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁸You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

¹²Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

⁵He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

²⁸The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

²⁸The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

¹²Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

³⁸On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the Lord.

³⁵Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

⁴⁵It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

¹For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

²For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

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.

⁴Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.

⁸He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

²⁷The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

³³If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

¹²Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

²⁸The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

¹For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

²For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

¹⁴But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

¹“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

⁹Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

¹⁸We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

³⁷And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

¹⁶Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

⁷Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁵Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹¹Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

²⁸and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

⁴⁰Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

⁸He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the Lord.

³¹The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

²¹You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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.”

³¹You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

²¹You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

²⁹The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

²⁰All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

²³All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.

²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

³I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

¹⁵And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.

¹³For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

¹²As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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.

⁴¹Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

⁴²Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.

²“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁵But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

¹⁶for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

²“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

⁷Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

⁷For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

²⁶You are to be holy to Me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

²“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

⁷I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

¹⁶for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

⁷For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

⁴³He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

³⁷This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

¹²This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

³²This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

⁵⁴This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,

¹⁰You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

²³They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

¹³Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

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.

²For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

³The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

¹⁸So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”