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Leviticus 11

¹The LORD gave Moses and Aaron the following regulations

²for the people of Israel. You may eat any land animal

³that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud,

⁴but you must not eat camels, rock badgers, or rabbits. These must be considered unclean; they chew the cud, but do not have divided hoofs.

⁷Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs, but do not chew the cud.

⁸Do not eat these animals or even touch their dead bodies; they are unclean.

⁹You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales,

¹⁰but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales must not be eaten.

¹¹Such creatures must be considered unclean. You must not eat them or even touch their dead bodies.

¹²You must not eat anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.

¹³You must not eat any of the following birds: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; or bats.

²⁰All winged insects are unclean,

²¹except those that hop.

²²You may eat locusts, crickets, or grasshoppers.

²³But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.

²⁴If you touch the dead bodies of the following animals, you will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. If you carry their dead bodies, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.

²⁹Moles, rats, mice, and lizards must be considered unclean.

³¹Whoever touches them or their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

³²And if their dead bodies fall on anything, it will be unclean. This applies to any article of wood, cloth, leather, or sacking, no matter what it is used for. It shall be dipped in water, but it will remain unclean until evening.

³³And if their bodies fall into a clay pot, everything that is in it shall be unclean, and you must break the pot.

³⁴Any food which could normally be eaten, but on which water from such a pot has been poured, will be unclean, and anything drinkable in such a pot is unclean.

³⁵Anything on which the dead bodies fall is unclean; a clay stove or oven shall be broken,

³⁶but a spring or a cistern remains clean, although anything else that touches their dead bodies is unclean.

³⁷If one of them falls on seed that is going to be planted, the seed remains clean.

³⁸But if the seed is soaking in water and one of them falls on it, the seed is unclean.

³⁹If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁰And if any of you eat any part of the animal, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening; any of you who carry the dead body must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.

⁴¹You must not eat any of the small animals that move on the ground,

⁴²whether they crawl, or walk on four legs, or have many legs.

⁴³Do not make yourselves unclean by eating any of these.

⁴⁴I am the LORD your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy.

⁴⁵I am the LORD who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.

⁴⁶This, then, is the law about animals and birds, about everything that lives in the water, and everything that moves on the ground.

⁴⁷You must be careful to distinguish between what is ritually clean and unclean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.