Bible Strands
Leviticus 7:19
Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses issues this directive to the Israelites during the tabernacle regulations, specifying how peace offering meat must be handled before consumption.
The words — The Hebrew בָּשָׂר (baśār) refers to the sacrificial meat, while טָמֵא (ṭāmēʾ) identifies the contaminating unclean object that renders the meat inedible and subject to burning.
The thread — The contamination principle appears in Leviticus 11:24 regarding carcasses, Numbers 19:11 regarding dead bodies, and informs the New Testament application in Romans 14:20 that food remains clean but must not become a destructive stumbling block.
Why it lands — The text commands the immediate disposal of contaminated offerings to preserve ritual purity, requiring the community to prioritize separation over convenience.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Romans 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.
- Leviticus 11:24 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Numbers 19:11 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Luke 11:41 But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
- Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Romans 14:14 I 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.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.