Biblical Farming And Food Laws

FARMING - Leviticus 19:19
"Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed."

FARMING - Leviticus 25:3-4
"For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards."

FOOD (YOUNG GOATS) - Exodus 23:19 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
"You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

FOOD (FAT and BLOOD) - Leviticus 3:17
"This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood."

FOOD (BLOOD) - Leviticus 7:27 [What about communion?]
"If anyone eats blood, that person must be executed."

FOOD (FISH) - Leviticus 11:10 [God doesn't like whales or dolphins. No eating lobster, shrimp, clams or calamari!]
"But anything in the seas or rivers that does not have fins and scales, regard as an abomination. Do not eat their meat and regard their carcasses as an abomination."

FOOD (BIRDS) - Leviticus 11:13-19 [God doesn't like our national emblem, and bats are birds!]
Of the birds, regard the following as an abomination and do not eat them: the eagle, the osprey, the kite, the falcon, the raven, the horned owl, the nighthawk, the sea gull, hawks of all kinds, the little owl, the cormorant, the white owl, the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

FOOD (INSECTS) - Leviticus 11:21-22
There are, however, some winged insects you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. You may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.

FOOD (CRAWLING THINGS) - Leviticus 11:29 [No escargot.]
Of the crawling things that crawl on the earth, regard the following as unclean: the weasel, the rat, the tortoise, the ferret, the crocodile, the lizard, the snail, and the mole.

FOOD (BLOOD) - Deuteronomy 12:23
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

FOOD (FISH) - Deuteronomy 14:9-10
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

FOOD (CANNIBALISM) - Isaiah 9:18
At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; No man spares his brother, each devours the flesh of his neighbor.

FOOD (CANNIBALISM) - Jeremiah 19:9 (NIV)
"I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives."

FOOD (EXCREMENT) - 2 Kings 18:27 (KJV)
"Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?"

FOOD (RITUAL CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM) - John 6:53-57 (NIV)
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me."

GOD ON CHRISTMAS TREES - Jeremiah 10:2-8
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.... They are altogether brutish and foolish.