Sentences with phrase «testament food laws»

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In the Old Testament law, the nation of Israel was commanded not to eat certain foods (Leviticus 11:1 - 47), but there was never a command against eating meat.

The Old Testament prophet Daniel, rather than violate God's law, was granted permission not to partake of the king's food» though, we must acknowledge, he took the minimum resistance necessary, even seeking a pagan official's approval of an alternative action.

This distinction appears again and again with regard to treatment of enemies, family relations, slavery, debt, and even to the selling of diseased meat.11 The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk large in all the codes recorded in the Old Testament.

@Russ, From your link: «When Christ appeared he declared all foods clean (Mark 7:19), and he ignored the Old Testament cleanliness laws in other ways, touching lepers and dead bodies.