Banned by the Bible

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Here a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.

  1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)
  2. Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)
  3. Eating fat (3:17)
  4. Eating blood (3:17)
  5. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)
  6. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)
  7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)
  8. Carelessly making an oath (5:4)
  9. Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)
  10. Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)
  11. Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)
  12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
  13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)
  14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics, this ‘un) (10:9)
  15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)
  16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:8)
  17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
  18. Eating – or touching the carcass of – eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,the red kite, any kind of black kite,any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)
  19. Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)
  20. Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)
  21. Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)
  22. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)
  23. Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
  24. Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)
  25. Having sex with your mother (18:7)
  26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)
  27. Having sex with your sister (18:9)
  28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)
  29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)
  30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)
  31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)
  32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)
  33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)
  34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17)
  35. Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)
  36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
  37. Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)
  38. Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)
  39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)
  40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)
  41. Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)
  42. Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)
  43. Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)
  44. Stealing (19:11)
  45. Lying (19:11)
  46. Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)
  47. Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)
  48. Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (not well observed these days) (19:13)
  49. Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
  50. Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)
  51. Spreading slander (19:16)
  52. Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)
  53. Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)
  54. Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
  55. Cross-breeding animals (19:19)
  56. Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)
  57. Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)
  58. Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
  59. Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
  60. Trimming your beard (19:27)
  61. Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
  62. Getting tattoos (19:28)
  63. Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)
  64. Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)
  65. Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
  66. Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”(19:33-34)
  67. Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)
  68. Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)
  69. Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)
  70. Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)
  71. Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)
  72. Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
  73. Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
  74. Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)
  75. Selling land permanently (25:23)
  76. Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42)

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Bible verses Christians love to ignore

Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads. Leviticus 19:27

All that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.  Leviticus 9:10

Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Exodus 23:19

When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. Leviticus 15: 19-20

If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed. Leviticus 20:15 NLT

No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD. Deuteronomy 23:1 NRSV

Whosoever … hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken … He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV

Whosoever … hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken … He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV

You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. Ephesians 6:5 NLT

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21

Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)
Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)
• Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
• Cross-breeding animals (19:19)
• Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
• Trimming your beard (19:27)
• Getting tattoos (19:28)
• Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
• Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)
• Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)
• Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
• Selling land permanently (25:23)

Whosoever … hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken … He shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries. Leviticus 21:17-23 KJV

Jesus fully supported everything in the Old Testament. Here is Jesus speaking specifically on the topic of Old Testament teachings:

The Law Stands“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 5:18-19

“It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid.” (Luke 16:17)

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.” (Matthew 5:17)

“Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law” (John7:19)

75 other things banned in the Bible / Leviticus Christians love to ignore.

Keep in mind, this is Jesus Christ saying this–in the Bible that all Christians own and cherish. Don’t take my word for it; look it up–it’s all there.