Text: Deuteronomy 14:3
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 11:1
Subject: dietary regulations
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Deuteronomy 14:3 opens the dietary code with "You must not eat any detestable thing" (תּוֹעֵבָה, to'evah), introducing a near-complete restatement of the Leviticus 11 food laws. While Leviticus 11 presents the regulations in the context of God's holiness code at Sinai, Deuteronomy 14 frames them as a consequence of Israel's identity: "you are sons of the LORD your God" and "a people holy to the LORD" (Deut 14:1-2). The dietary laws are thus restated not merely as ritual requirements but as markers of covenant sonship — what Leviticus grounds in the clean/unclean distinction, Deuteronomy roots in election and relationship.