Food

Food

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.'" (Leviticus 11:2)

"You may eat any clean bird." (Deuteronomy 14:11)

"These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat." (Leviticus 11:9)

"Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth." (Leviticus 11:21)

"Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you." (Leviticus 11:4)

"These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, every raven in its kind, and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture, and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat." (Leviticus 11:13-19) The literal commandment is that we are not to eat birds (flying animals) that are forbidden in this list.

"These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you, and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest. Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you." (Leviticus 11:9-12)

"And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten." (Deuteronomy 14:19)

"Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten." (Leviticus 11:41)

"For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth." (Leviticus 11:44)

"Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable." (Leviticus 11:42)

"Do not render yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean." (Leviticus 11:43)

"You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." (Deuteronomy 14:21)

"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." (Exodus 21:28)

"You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs." (Exodus 22:31)

"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh." (Deuteronomy 12:23)



"It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'" (Leviticus 3:17)

"It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'" (Leviticus 3:17) The literal commandment is that we are not to eat any "fat".

"Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip." (Genesis 32:32)

"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 'You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother." (Exodus 23:19)

"You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 'You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." (Exodus 34:26)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places." (Leviticus 23:14)

"When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten." (Leviticus 19:23)

"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

"But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest." (Leviticus 22:14-15)

"If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire." (Deuteronomy 12:21)

"But, whether it is an ox or a sheep, you shall not kill both it and its young in one day." (Leviticus 22:28)

"So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth." (Leviticus 17:13)

The blood of animals caught while hunting shall be poured out and covered with dirt.

"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;" (Deuteronomy 22:6)

"you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days." (Deuteronomy 22:7)