eating meat

³And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,

¹But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas. ²For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants. ³He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him. ⁴Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand. ⁵For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind. ⁶He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ²Say to the sons of Israel: These are the animals that you ought to eat out of all the living things of the earth. ³All that has a divided hoof, and that chews over again, among the cattle, you shall eat. ⁴But whatever certainly chews over again, but has a hoof that is not divided, such as the camel and others, these you shall not eat, and you shall consider them to be among what is unclean. ⁵The rock rabbit which chews over again, and whose hoof is not divided, is unclean, ⁶and so also is the hare, for it too chews over again, yet its hoof is not divided,

²⁹And God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you,

²For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.

²¹It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.

¹⁹For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods.”

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.

⁸Yet food does not commend us to God. For if we eat, we will not have more, and if we do not eat, we will not have less.

¹“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead. ²For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth. ³You shall not eat the things that are unclean. ⁴These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat, ⁵the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe. ⁶Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

¹³Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin.