1And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and with Ahron and said to them: 2“Speak with the children of Israel and say to them: ‘This animal you shall be eating of every beast that is on land. 3Everything that cleaves open its hoof and divides it in two and chews cud, eat it. 4And these things you will not eat: from those that chew cud and from those that cleave open their hooves; the camel that chews cud and its hoof does not cleave is defiled to you. 5And the rabbit that chews cud and its foot does not cleave is defiled to you. 6And the hare that chews cud and its foot does not cleave is defiled to you. 7And the swine that cleaves its hoof and divides in two and does not chew cud is defiled to you. 8You will not eat from their flesh and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are defiled to you.

9And these things you will eat from everything that is in water: eat anything that has fins and scales in the water, in the seas and in rivers. 10And everything in the seas and in the rivers, among all creeping things of the waters and among every living soul that is in water, that does not have fins and scales, they are defiled to you: 11You will not eat from their flesh and their carcasses shall be unclean. 12And everything in water that does not have fins or scales is defiled to you.

13And reject these things from the birds and they shall not be eaten because they are defiled: the eagle and the vulture, 14And the raven with its kinds, 15And the ostrich and the hawk with its kinds, 16And the little owl, the heron and the crow, 17And the owl and the pelican and the beeeater, 18And the stork and the hoopoe with its kinds, 19And a male chicken and the peacock,

20And every offspring of flying creatures that walks on four is defiled to you. 21And eat these things from every offspring of insects that walks on four that has legs over its feet, that scratches with them in the earth; 22Of them eat these: locusts with their kinds and the large grasshopper with its kinds. 23And every offspring of insects that has four legs is defiled to you.

24And by these you will be defiled; everyone who touches their carcasses shall be defiled until evening. 25And everyone who takes up their carcasses shall wash his garments and will be defiled until evening. 26And every beast that cleaves its hoof and is not divided in two and does not chew cud is defiled to you and everyone that will touch them shall be defiled until evening. 27And everything that walks on its hands of every creature that walks on four is defiled to you, and everyone touching their corpses shall be defiled until evening. 28And whoever takes up their bodies shall wash his garments and he will be defiled until evening because they are unclean to you.

29And these are defiled among every creeping thing that creeps on Earth: the weasel and the mouse and the lizard with its kinds, 30And the lizard and the mole and the newt and the chameleon and the centipede. 31These are defiled among every creeping thing; everything that touches them when they are dead shall be defiled until evening. 32And everyone on whom one such dead creature falls shall be unclean, and every implement of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sackcloth, or any vessel that is made among them put in water, they shall dip them and they shall be defiled until evening and they shall be purified. 33And every earthen vessel of them into which it falls, everything in it shall be defiled, and you shall break it. 34And of every food that is eaten upon which the water falls shall be defiled, and every drink that is drunk in any vessel shall be defiled. 35And everything that falls from their corpses upon it shall be defiled; a furnace or a house oven shall be destroyed; they are defiled and shall be defiled to you. 36However a spring and a fountain and reservoir of waters shall be pure, and who ever will touch their corpses shall be defiled. 37And if anything falls from their corpses on any generation of seed of the seed that is sown, it is pure. 38And if waters have fallen on a generation of the seed and they fell from their corpses upon it, it is defiled to you.

39And if one of a beast that is clean to you to eat should die, everyone who will touch its carcass shall be defiled until evening. 40And he who will pick up from its carcass shall wash his garments and he will be defiled until evening.

41And every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth is defiled to you; you shall not eat it. 42And everything that crawls on its belly and everything that walks on four and every multi legged creature of every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth, you shall not eat of them, because they are defiled. 43You shall not defile your souls with any creeping thing that creeps on the Earth, that you will not be defiled by them; you shall not be defiled by them. 44Because I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God and you shall be hallowed and you shall be Holy Ones, because I am holy; you shall not defile your souls by any creeping thing that creeps on the Earth. 45Because I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be God to you, and you shall be Holy Ones because I am holy.

46This is the Written Law of cattle and of birds and of every living soul that swarms in water and of every soul that creeps in the Earth: 47And to distinguish between the defiled and the pure and between animals that are eaten and between animals that are not eaten.'"