the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
Leviticus 11:20-23All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. / However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. / Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper. ...
Leviticus 11:41-44Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten. / Do 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. / Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them. ...
Acts 10:12-15It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air. / Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” / “No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” ...
Leviticus 11:13-19Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, / the kite, any kind of falcon, / any kind of raven, ...
Genesis 7:14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
Leviticus 11:29-30The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard, / the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
Acts 11:6-9I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. / Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’ / ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ ...
Leviticus 11:10-12But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales. / They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses. / Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
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.
Leviticus 11:46-47This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground. / You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
Mark 7:18-19“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, / because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
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.
1 Timothy 4:4-5For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, / because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Genesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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.”
