³¹ “And you shall be ^(A)holy men to Me: ^(B)you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

¹⁴ So I said, ^(A)“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten ^(B)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^(C)abominable^[a] flesh ever come into my mouth.”

² “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(A)‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

^15 (A)but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ because it is written, ^(B)“Be holy, for I am holy.”

²⁰ but that we ^(A)write to them to abstain ^(B)from things polluted by idols, ^(C)from ^[a]sexual immorality, ^(D)from things strangled, and from blood.

³¹ The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that ^(A)died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.

^21 (A)“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; ^(B)for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.

“^(C)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

^8 (A)Whatever dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the Lord.

¹⁴ But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! ^(A)For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”

^25 (A)You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, ^(B)and you shall not make yourselves ^[a]abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as ^[b]unclean.