Bible Verses About Dietary Laws

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

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

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:

And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.