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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"'There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to regard as unclean. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And since you are to regard them as unclean, you must not eat their meat; you must regard their carcasses as unclean. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be regarded as unclean by you. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"'These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14the red kite, any kind of black kite, |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15any kind of raven, |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"'All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"'You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"'Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. These animals are unclean for you. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"'Of the animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth. Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Any food you are allowed to eat that has come into contact with water from any such pot is unclean, and any liquid that is drunk from such a pot is unclean. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean. |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"'If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean till evening. |
40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Anyone who eats some of its carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. |
41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41"'Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten. |
42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. |
43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. |
44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. |
45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy. |
46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"'These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground. |
47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.'" |
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