Bible Verses About Unclean Animals
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for unclean animals, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,960 votes, led by Leviticus 11:1-47. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Unclean Animals
Leviticus 11:1-47215 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Isaiah 66:17136 votes
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Leviticus 20:25130 votes
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Mark 7:18-2397 votes
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Acts 10:11-1591 votes
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Deuteronomy 14:3-2190 votes
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Romans 14:1489 votes
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Deuteronomy 14:3-2070 votes
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Leviticus 7:2164 votes
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Acts 11:5-1060 votes
I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
Genesis 7:258 votes
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
1 Timothy 4:3-552 votes
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Ezekiel 4:1448 votes
Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Matthew 15:1148 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Acts 10:9-1647 votes
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
Colossians 2:16-1736 votes
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Genesis 7:2-335 votes
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Leviticus 11:26-2833 votes
The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:4-832 votes
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Mark 7:18-1931 votes
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Deuteronomy 14:7-830 votes
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:2629 votes
The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Isaiah 65:428 votes
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Deuteronomy 14:1-2924 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Acts 10:2821 votes
And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
What does the Bible say about unclean animals?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 11:1-47 on the subject of unclean animals. Across 1,960 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 66:17, Leviticus 20:25, Mark 7:18-23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.