And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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:

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.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. {yourselves abominable: Heb. your souls, etc}

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou {art} cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed {difference} between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. {violated: Heb. offered violence to}

And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat {any} flesh {that is} torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.