Every food in the Bible,
organized & explained.
All 80+ foods of Scripture in one place — how often each appears, every verse it lives in, and whether the Law of Moses calls it clean.
Try any food — shrimp, fig, lamb, locust…
“Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed… to you it shall be for meat.” — Genesis 1:29
The most mentioned foods
Card size follows the count — every number is a real verse count from the King James text.
Clean & unclean — the rules of Leviticus 11
Six categories decide the whole list. Learn the rules once, and you can judge any food yourself.
Counts as clean
- Land animals that part the hoof and chew the cudLev 11:3
- Water creatures with fins and scalesLev 11:9
- Most birds — doves, quail, pigeonsDeut 14:11
- Locusts, crickets & grasshoppersLev 11:22
Counts as unclean
- Swine — parts the hoof, chews no cudLev 11:7
- Shellfish — no fins, no scalesLev 11:10
- Birds of prey & scavengersLev 11:13
- Camel, hare, and all that creepLev 11:4
The chapter behind it all — Leviticus 11
“This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.” — Leviticus 11:46-47
“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”
Leviticus 11:3
“These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.”
Leviticus 11:9
“Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;”
Leviticus 11:21
The seven species of the promised land
“A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey.” — Deuteronomy 8:8
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