 1 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 2 Speak to the children of Israel saying, These are the animals that you shall eat among all the animals on the earth. 3 Whatever divides the hoof and is cloven footed, chewing the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat. 4 Only you must not eat those that chew the cud or that divide the hoof. The camel for he chews the cud but does not divide the hoof is unclean for you. 5 The rodent+ chews the cud but does not divide the hoof so is unclean for you. 6 The hare because he chews the cud but does not divide the hoof is unclean for you. 7 The swine though he divides the hoof and is cloven footed yet does not chew the cud is unclean for you. 8 You must not eat their flesh and you must not touch their dead body. They are unclean to you. 9 These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: Whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers you shall eat. 10 All that do not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters and of any living thing that is in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you. 11 They shall be an abomination to you. You shall not eat of their flesh but you shall have their carcasses in abomination. 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters shall be an abomination to you. 13 You shall have these in abomination among the fowls. They shall not be eaten. They are an abomination: the eagle and the black vulture and the bearded vulture. 14 Also the kite and the falcon according to its kind. 15 Every raven according to its kind. 16 The ostrich, the great owl, the gull, and small hawks according to its kind. 17 The little owl, the cormorant, and the eared owl. 18 The barn owl, the pelican, and the owl vulture. 19 The stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. 20 Every flying swarming creature going on all four is an abomination to you. 21 Yet you may eat of any flying swarming thing that goes on all four, those that have legs above their feet to leap with on the earth. 22 You may eat these: The locust after its kind, the bald locust after its kind, the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind. 23 But every other flying swarming thing that has four feet shall be an abomination to you. 24 You shall be unclean for these. Whoever touches their dead body will be unclean until the evening. 25 Whoever carries the carcass of them shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening. 26 Every living thing that divides the hoof and is not cloven footed nor chews the cud are unclean for you. Everyone who touches them will be unclean. 27 Whatever goes on its paws among all the living things that go on all four, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their dead body will be unclean until the evening. 28 Anyone who carries a dead body must wash their clothes and remain unclean until evening. They are unclean to you. 29 These also will be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: The weasel, the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind. 30 Also the gecko, the monitor, the lizard, the sand lizard, and chameleon. 31 These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening. 32 Whatever falls on them when they are dead will be unclean, whether any vessel of wood or clothing or skin or sack. Whatever vessel in which work is done must be put into water and it will be unclean until the evening. So it shall be cleaned. 33 Every earthen vessel in which any of them falls, whatever is in it will be unclean and you must break it. 34 Of all food that may be eaten, that on which such water comes shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 35 Every thing on which any part of a dead body falls will be unclean, whether the oven or ranges for pots. They must be broken down for they are unclean and will be unclean to you. 36 But a fountain or cistern in which there is plenty of water will be clean. But whatever touches a dead body will be unclean. 37 If any of their dead body falls on any sowing seed that is to be sown, it shall be clean. 38 But if any water is put on the seed and any part of the dead body falls on it, it shall be unclean to you. 39 If any animal among those you may eat dies, anyone who touches the dead body will be unclean until the evening. 40 Those who eat of its dead body shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening. Anyone who carries its body shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening. 41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten. 42 Anything going on its belly, and any going on all four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them. For they are an abomination. 43 You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them so that you become defiled by them. 44 For I am the Lord your God. You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of swarming thing that swarms on the earth. 45 For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the law of the animals, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms on the earth, 47 to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten.
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