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Leviticus 11:47
Leviticus 11:47 is verse 47 of Leviticus chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”
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Leviticus 11:45–47 · Berean Standard Bible
45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
46 This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Ezekiel 44:23They 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.
Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Romans 14:2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
Romans 14:3The 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.
Romans 14:13Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
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.
Romans 14:15If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:16Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.
Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:18For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
Romans 14:19So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
Romans 14:21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
Romans 14:22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
Romans 14:23But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.