Leviticus 11:32-47 ▼

32 Furthermore, anything on which they fall when they're dead becomes unclean, whether on an article of wood, clothing, skin, or a sack. And any vessel used for any work is to be washed in water, because it has become unclean until evening.

33 Any earthen vessel into which any of these things fall becomes unclean, along with everything in it. You are to destroy it, along with all its contents.|

34 |Any food that may be eaten, but into which water has soaked, becomes unclean. Any drink that may be drunk in any of these vessels becomes unclean,

35 and anything into which their carcass falls becomes unclean. An oven or stove is to be broken in pieces. They're unclean and therefore unclean for you.

36 |A spring or a cistern that holds water is clean, but whoever touches the carcass of an unclean animal will be unclean.

37 If their carcass falls on a seed, which is for sowing, what is to be sown is clean.

38 But if water is put on the seed and part of their carcass falls on it, then it has become unclean for you.

39 |If any of the animals that you may eat dies, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

40 The one who eats from its carcass is to wash his clothes, because he has become unclean until evening. Even the one who carries the carcass is to wash his clothes, because he has become unclean until evening.|

41 |Every swarming thing that swarms the land is detestable for you. It is not to be eaten.

42 You are not to eat anything that crawls on its belly, anything that walks on four legs, anything that has many legs, or any of the swarming creatures that swarm the land, because they're detestable.

43 You are not to make yourselves detestable on account of any swarming creature that swarms the land, and you are not to defile yourselves and become unclean due to them,

44 because I, the LORD, am your God. Set yourselves apart and be holy, because I am holy. You are not to defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that swarm the earth.

45 I am the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You are to be holy, because I am holy.

46 This is the law concerning animals, every living creature that moves on the waters or swarms on land.

47 You are to differentiate between the clean and unclean, between the living creature that can be eaten and the living creature that is not to be eaten.|