Leviticus 11:1-12 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the beast which you eat out of all the beasts which [are] on the earth:

3 any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

4 Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof: the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not dividing—it [is] unclean to you;

5 and the hyrax, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not divided—it [is] unclean to you;

6 and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof has not divided—it [is] unclean to you;

7 and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it does not bring up the cud—it [is] unclean to you.

8 You do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass—they [are] unclean to you.

9 This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them you eat;

10 and anything that does not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which lives, which [is] in the waters—they [are] an abomination to you;

11 indeed, they are an abomination to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you detest their carcass.

12 Anything that does not have fins and scales in the waters—it [is] an abomination to you.