Ezekiel 44:31
29 They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
30 The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
- KJV
- The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
- WEB
- The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
- ASV
- The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
- DARBY
- The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or of that which is torn, whether of fowl or of beast.
- BLB
- Every carcass and torn thing from the bird or from the beast, the priests shall not eat.
- ÅB
- Noe selvdødt eller sønderrevet av fugler eller dyr skal prestene ikke spise.
- OTB
- Prestene skal ikke spise noe, verken fugl eller dyr, som er funnet dødt eller revet i hjel av ville dyr.
- B1930
- Noget selvdødt eller sønderrevet av fugler eller dyr skal prestene ikke ete.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 22:8
He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
Read in contextExodus 22:31
You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 14:21
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Read in contextRomans 14:20
Do 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.
Read in contextEzekiel 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.”
Read in contextLeviticus 17:15
And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
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