Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God [has] received him.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an offense before our brother.

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for his conscience' sake; for "The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness."

But if I partake with thanks, why am I defamed for [that] of which I give thanks?

For before certain [men] came from James, he would eat together with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and began to separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which you shall eat out of all beasts that are upon the earth.

But of these you shall not eat, of those that chew the cud, and of those that part the hoofs, and divide claws: the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; these are unclean to you.

And all things which have not fins or scales in the water, or in the seas, and in the brooks, of all which the waters produce, and of every soul living in the water, are an abomination; and they shall be abominations to you.

And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters, these are an abomination to you.

And the vulture, and the kite, and the like to it;

and every raven, and the birds like it, and the hawk and his like,

and the red-bill, and the pelican, and swan,

And all winged creatures that creep, which go upon four feet, are abominations to you.

And these of them you shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like.

And by these you shall be defiled; everyone that touches their carcasses shall be unclean till the evening.

And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws, and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; everyone that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

And he that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till evening: these are unclean to you.

the ferret, the chameleon, the evet, the newt, and the mole.

And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and [then] it shall be clean.

And all food that is eaten, on which water shall come [from such a vessel], shall be unclean; and every beverage which is drunk in any [such] vessel shall be unclean.

Only [if the water be] of fountains of water, or a pool, or confluence of water, it shall be clean; but he that touches their carcasses shall be unclean.

But if water be poured on any seed, and one of their dead bodies fall upon it, it is unclean to you.

And he that eats of their carcasses shall wash his garments, and be unclean till evening; and he that carries any of their carcasses shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean till evening.

And every [animal] that creeps on its belly, and everyone that goes on four [feet] continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles creeping upon the earth- you shall not eat it, for it is an abomination to you.

For I am the Lord your God; and you shall be sanctified, and you shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and you shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth.

This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth;

And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set My face against that soul that eats blood, and I will destroy [that soul] from [among] its people.

Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.

For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: everyone that eats it shall be destroyed.

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, and the mountain goat.

And these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.

And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.

You shall eat every clean bird.

the vulture, the kite and the like to it,

the sparrow, the owl, the seagull,

the cormorant, the hawk and its like, the hoopoe, the raven,

All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.

You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people unto the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

Then I said, By no means, Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, nor have I eaten that which has died of itself, or was torn by beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!"

"I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel coming down like a great sheet, being lowered by the four corners from heaven; and it came as far as me;

And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Arise, Peter; kill and eat.'

"But the voice answered me a second [time] from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not call common.'

And behold, immediately three men stood before the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

And he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, 'Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter,

"And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.

"If then God has given to them the same gift as He gave to us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I [to be] able to hinder God?"

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and [from] blood.

One indeed believes that he may eat all things, but another, being weak, eats [only] vegetables.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Therefore do not let your good be slandered.

However, this knowledge is not in all [people]; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as [something] offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Six days shall you do work, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: you shall not do any work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord's Passover.

And the first day shall be a holy convocation to you: you shall do no customary work.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morning of the first day the priest shall lift it up.

And its grain offering two tenth portions of fine flour mingled with oil: it is a sacrifice to the Lord, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord, and its drink offering the fourth part of a hin of wine.

And you shall number to yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day on which you shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks:

You shall bring loaves from your dwelling [places], as a heave offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the firstfruits to the Lord.

And they shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of a year old for a peace offering, with the loaves of the firstfruits.

And you shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; you shall do no customary work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

You shall do no customary work, and you shall offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall humble your souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

Every soul that shall not be humbled in that day, shall be cut off from among its people.

You shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And on the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work.

These [are] the feasts to the Lord, which you shall call holy convocations, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, whole burnt offerings and their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, that for each day on its day:

And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.

[It is] a perpetual statute for your generations: in the seventh month you shall keep it.

that your posterity may see, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tents, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the Lord your God.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And you shall say to them, These are the burnt offerings, all that you shall bring to the Lord: two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole burnt offering, perpetually.

And you shall offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mingled with oil, with the fourth part of a hin.

And its drink offering, the fourth part of a hin to each lamb; in the holy place shall you pour strong drink as a drink offering to the Lord.

And on the Sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering, and a drink offering.

And at the new moons you shall bring a whole burnt offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.

A tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for each lamb, as a grain offering, a sweet-smelling savor, a burnt offering to the Lord.

And [he shall offer] one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered beside the continual whole burnt offering and its drink offering.

And on the fifteenth day of this month [is] a feast; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

And you shall bring whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish.

You shall offer a tenth for each lamb, for the seven lambs.

Beside the perpetual whole burnt offering in the morning, which is a whole burnt sacrifice for a continuance,

And the seventh day shall be to you a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work in it.

and you shall bring whole burnt offerings for a sweet-smelling savor to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs without blemish.

A tenth for each lamb separately, for the seven lambs; and a kid of the goats,

Observe the month of new [grain], and you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God; because in the month of new grain you came out of Egypt by night.

You shall not eat leaven with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened [bread] with it, [the] bread of affliction, because you came forth out of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

You shall not have power to sacrifice the Passover in any of the cities, which the Lord your God gives you.

And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house.

Seven weeks shall you number to yourself; when you have begun [to put] the sickle to the grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks.

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord your God shall choose, that His name should be called there.

You shall keep for yourself the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you gather in [your produce] from your threshing floor and your winepress.

Seven days shall you keep a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for Himself; and if the Lord your God shall bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, then you shall rejoice.

Each one according to his ability, according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which He has given you.

And Nehemiah and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites, and they that instructed the people, spoke and said to all the people, It is a holy day to the Lord our God; do not mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the Law.

And [as for] the people of the land who bring wares and all [manner of] merchandise to sell on the Sabbath day, we [will] not buy from them on the Sabbath or on the holy day; and we will leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of Your wondrous tabernacle, [even] to the house of God, with a voice of exaltation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

One indeed judges one day above another; but another judges every day [the same]. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God.

And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, you shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I [am] the Lord your God.

And at the new moons you shall bring a whole burnt offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.

Their drink offering shall be the half of a hin for one calf; and the third of a hin for one ram; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for one lamb: this [is] the whole burnt offering monthly throughout the months of the year.

And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I shall not on any account sit down to eat, but you shall let me go, and I will hide in the plain till the evening.

And Jonathan said, Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be inquired about, because your seat will be observed as vacant.

And he said, Why are you going to him today? It is neither new moon, nor the Sabbath. And she said, [It is] well.

and [to be] over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order [given] to them, continually before the Lord.

the showbread, and the continual grain offering, and for the continual whole burnt offering, of the Sabbaths, of the new moon, for the feast, and for the holy things, and the sin offerings, to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.

Though you bring fine flour, [it is] futile; incense is an abomination to Me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;

And through the prince shall be [offered] the whole burnt offerings and the meat offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel; he shall offer the sin offerings, and the meat offerings, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

Thus says the Lord God: The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; [but] let it be opened on the Sabbath day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.

And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate, both on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, before the Lord.

saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

This shall be to you a most holy Sabbath, a rest, and you shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.

Six days shall you do work, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: you shall not do any work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.

It shall be a holy Sabbath to you; and you shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening you shall keep your Sabbaths.

And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.