Leviticus 11:20-47 ▼

20 Every swarming thing that flies, the one walking on four legs, it is an abomination to you?.

21 Only this you? may eat from every swarming thing that flies, the one walking on four legs: That which has jointed legs above its feet to leap with them on the earth.

22 These from them you? may eat: The locust according to its kind, and the katydid according to its kind, and the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

23 And every swarming thing that flies that has four feet, it is an abomination to you?.

24 And by these you? shall become unclean; anyone who touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

25 And everyone who lifts from their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

26 To every beast that is dividing the hoof, and is not cleaving a cleft, and is not bringing up the cud, it is unclean to you?. Anyone who touches them shall be unclean.

27 And everything walking on its palms among all the living that go on four legs, they are unclean to you?. Everyone who touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

28 And the one lifting their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening—they are unclean to you?.

29 And this is unclean to you? among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: The mole, and the mouse, and the large lizard according to its kind,

30 and the gecko, and the monitor lizard, and the lizard, and the skink, and the chameleon.

31 These are unclean to you? among every swarming thing; anyone who touches them in their death shall be unclean until the evening.

32 And on all that, from their death, it falls, shall be unclean. From every vessel of wood, or garment, or skin, or sackcloth. Every vessel in which work is done, it must be put in the water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; and it shall be clean.

33 And every earthen vessel that falls from them into its midst, all that is in its midst shall be unclean, and you? shall break it.

34 From all the food that may be eaten, on which water comes, it shall be unclean, and all drink that may be drunk from such a vessel shall be unclean.

35 And everything on which their carcass falls, it shall be unclean: An oven or a hearth, it shall be broken down. They are unclean, and they shall be unclean to you?.

36 Only a spring and a cistern, a collection of water, shall be clean, and the one touching their carcass shall be unclean.

37 And if their carcass falls on any planting seed that is to be sown, it is clean.

38 And if water is put on the seed, and their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you?.

39 And if from the beast that is for food for you? dies, the one touching its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

40 And the one eating from its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; and the one lifting its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

41 And every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth it is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

42 Everything crawling on its belly and everything walking on four legs, as far as everything multiplying feet among all the swarming things that swarm upon the earth, you? shall not eat them, for they are an abomination.

43 You? shall not make your? souls detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you? shall not make yourselves unclean with them, and you? shall not become unclean by them.

44 For I am YHWH your? God. And you? shall sanctify yourselves, and you? shall be holy, for I am holy. And you? shall not make unclean your souls with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth.

45 For I am YHWH, the One bringing you? up from the land of Egypt, to be your? God; and you? shall be holy, for I am holy.

46 This is the law of the beast and the bird and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms upon the earth,

47 to distinguish between the unclean and between the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and between the living thing that may not be eaten.’”