Eggs
DAIRY
Animal product not addressed by Leviticus 11's clean/unclean framework
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 7 verses (KJV)
Dairy
Description
Eggs appear only a handful of times in Scripture, and only twice as ordinary food. Jesus used one to make a point about a father’s trustworthy generosity, and Job used a raw egg white’s blandness to describe food with no flavor at all.
Key verses
“Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?”
Luke 11:12
“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”
Job 6:6
All 7 referencesshow
- Deuteronomy 22:6
- Isaiah 10:14
- Isaiah 59:5
- Jeremiah 17:11
- Job 6:6
- Job 39:14
- Luke 11:12