Unclean animals

We are no longer required to eat only clean animals. In the old testament though, God wanted his people to be holy, or set apart, from the rest of the world. One of the ways they did this was by only eating clean animals. Here are a list of verses that give some insight on what animals were "unclean".

• Leviticus 7:19

  ‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

• Leviticus 11:27

  Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

• Leviticus 11:42

  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 11:10

  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,

• Leviticus 11:12

  Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.

• Deuteronomy 14:10

  but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

• Leviticus 11:4

  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.

• Deuteronomy 14:7

  Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.

• Deuteronomy 14:8

  The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.