◄ Leviticus 11:47 ►
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Good News Translation
You must be careful to distinguish between what is ritually clean and unclean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.

New Revised Standard Version
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

New American Bible
that you may distinguish between the clean and the unclean, and between creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.

Leviticus 10:10 And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Romans 14:2,3,13-23 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs. . . .

Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
…46You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth: 47That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:10
And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

Leviticus 11:46
You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth:

Leviticus 12:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Leviticus 11:46
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