Leviticus 11:8 “You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean…”

Leviticus 11:8

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

World English Bible

You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

American Standard Version

Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

Geneva Bible 1599

Of their flesh shall yee not eate, and their carkeise shall yee not touch: for they shall bee vncleane to you.

Darby Translation

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they shall be unclean unto you.

Young's Literal Translation

'Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come — unclean they [are] to you.

Bible in Basic English

Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

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Cross references

“they are unclean”

Colossians 2:16 Hebrews 9:10 Leviticus 5:2 Isaiah 52:11 Hosea 9:3 Matthew 15:11

Colossians 2:16 · BSB

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

Hebrews 9:10 · BSB

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

Leviticus 5:2 · BSB

Or 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.

Isaiah 52:11 · BSB

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

Hosea 9:3 · BSB

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

Matthew 15:11 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

9Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.

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