Camel
UNCLEAN
Chews the cud but parts no hoof (Lev 11:4)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 59 verses (KJV)
Meat
Description
Camels chew the cud but don’t have a split hoof, which — under the same two-part test used for pigs — made them unclean to eat despite their enormous value as pack animals and a measure of wealth. A household could own camels, ride them, and trade with them, just never eat them.
Key verses
“Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.”
Leviticus 11:4
All 59 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 5:21
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
- 1 Chronicles 27:30
- 1 Kings 10:2
- 1 Samuel 15:3
- 1 Samuel 27:9
- 1 Samuel 30:17
- 2 Chronicles 9:1
- 2 Chronicles 14:15
- 2 Kings 8:9
- Deuteronomy 14:7
- Esther 8:10
- Esther 8:14
- Exodus 9:3
- Ezekiel 25:5
- Ezra 2:67
- Genesis 12:16
- Genesis 24:10
- Genesis 24:11
- Genesis 24:14
- Genesis 24:19
- Genesis 24:20
- Genesis 24:22
- Genesis 24:30
- Genesis 24:31
- Genesis 24:32
- Genesis 24:35
- Genesis 24:44
- Genesis 24:46
- Genesis 24:61
- Genesis 24:63
- Genesis 24:64
- Genesis 30:43
- Genesis 31:17
- Genesis 31:34
- Genesis 32:7
- Genesis 32:15
- Genesis 37:25
- Isaiah 21:7
- Isaiah 30:6
- Isaiah 60:6
- Jeremiah 49:29
- Jeremiah 49:32
- Job 1:3
- Job 1:17
- Job 42:12
- Judges 6:5
- Judges 7:12
- Judges 8:21
- Judges 8:26
- Leviticus 11:4
- Luke 18:25
- Mark 1:6
- Mark 10:25
- Matthew 3:4
- Matthew 19:24
- Matthew 23:24
- Nehemiah 7:69
- Zechariah 14:15