Leviticus 11:1–47

¹And Jehovah proceeded to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying to them:²“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is the living creature that ​YOU​ may eat of all the beasts that are upon the earth:³Every creature that splits the hoof and forms a cleft in the hoofs and chews the cud among the beasts, that is what ​YOU​ may eat.

⁴“‘Only this is what ​YOU​ must not eat among the chewers of the cud and the splitters of the hoof: the camel, because it is a chewer of the cud but is no splitter of the hoof. It is unclean for ​YOU.⁵Also the rock badger, because it is a chewer of the cud but does not split the hoof. It is unclean for ​YOU.⁶Also the hare, because it is a chewer of the cud but it does not have the hoof split. It is unclean for ​YOU.⁷Also the pig, because it is a splitter of the hoof and a former of a cleft in the hoof, but it itself does not chew the cud. It is unclean for ​YOU.⁸YOU​ must not eat any of their flesh, and ​YOU​ must not touch their dead body. They are unclean for ​YOU.

⁹“‘This is what ​YOU​ may eat of everything that is in the waters: Everything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the torrents, those ​YOU​ may eat.¹⁰And everything in the seas and the torrents that has no fins and scales, out of every swarming creature of the waters and out of every living soul that is in the waters, they are a loathsome thing for ​YOU.¹¹Yes, they will become a loathsome thing to ​YOU. YOU​ must not eat any of their flesh, and ​YOU​ are to loathe their dead body.¹²Everything in the waters that has no fins and scales is a loathsome thing to ​YOU.

¹³“‘And these are what ​YOU​ will loathe among the flying creatures. They should not be eaten. They are a loathsome thing: the eagle and the osprey and the black vulture,¹⁴and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind,¹⁵and every raven according to its kind,¹⁶and the ostrich and the owl and the gull and the falcon according to its kind,¹⁷and the little owl and the cormorant and the long‐eared owl,¹⁸and the swan and the pelican and the vulture,¹⁹and the stork, the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.²⁰Every winged swarming creature that goes on all fours is a loathsome thing to ​YOU.

²¹“‘Only this is what ​YOU​ may eat of all the winged swarming creatures that go upon all fours, those that have leaper legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.²²These are the ones of them ​YOU​ may eat of: the migratory locust according to its kind, and the edible locust after its kind, and the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.²³And every other winged swarming creature that does have four legs is a loathsome thing to ​YOU.²⁴So by these ​YOU​ would make yourselves unclean. Everyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.²⁵And everyone carrying any of their dead bodies will wash his garments, and he must be unclean until the evening.

²⁶“‘As for any beast that is a splitter of the hoof but is not a former of a cleft and is not a chewer of the cud, they are unclean for ​YOU. Everyone touching them will be unclean.²⁷As for every creature going upon its paws among all the living creatures that go on all fours, they are unclean to ​YOU. Everyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.²⁸And he who carries their dead bodies will wash his garments, and he must be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to ​YOU.

²⁹“‘And this is what is unclean to ​YOU​ among the swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth: the mole rat and the jerboa and the lizard according to its kind,³⁰and the gecko fanfoot and the large lizard and the newt and the sand lizard and the chameleon.³¹These are unclean to ​YOU​ among all the swarming creatures. Everyone touching them in their death state will be unclean until the evening.

³²“‘Now anything upon which any of them should fall in its death state will be unclean, whether it be some wooden vessel or a garment or a skin or sackcloth. Any vessel of which some use is made will be put in water, and it must be unclean until the evening and then be clean.³³As for any earthenware vessel into which any of them should fall, anything that is within it will be unclean, and ​YOU​ will smash it.³⁴Any sort of food that may be eaten upon which water may come from it will be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk in any vessel will be unclean.³⁵And everything upon which any of their dead bodies may fall will be unclean. Whether oven or jar stand, it is to be broken down. They are unclean, and they will become unclean to ​YOU.³⁶Only a spring and a pit of impounded waters will continue clean, but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.³⁷And should any of their dead bodies fall upon any seed of a plant that is to be sown, it is clean.³⁸But in case water should be put upon seed and something of their dead bodies had fallen upon it, it is unclean to ​YOU.

³⁹“‘Now in case any beast that is ​YOURS​ for food should die, he who touches its dead body will be unclean until the evening.⁴⁰And he who eats any of its dead body will wash his garments, and he must be unclean until the evening; and he who carries off its dead body will wash his garments, and he must be unclean until the evening.⁴¹And every swarming creature that swarms upon the earth is a loathsome thing. It must not be eaten.⁴²As for any creature that goes upon the belly and any creature that goes on all fours or any great number of feet of all the swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, ​YOU​ must not eat them, because they are a loathsome thing.⁴³Do not make ​YOUR​ souls loathsome with any swarming creature that swarms, and ​YOU​ must not make yourselves unclean by them and actually get unclean by them.⁴⁴For I am Jehovah ​YOUR​ God; and ​YOU​ must sanctify yourselves and ​YOU​ must prove yourselves holy, because I am holy. So ​YOU​ must not make ​YOUR​ souls unclean by any swarming creature that moves upon the earth.⁴⁵For I am Jehovah who is leading ​YOU​ up out of the land of Egypt to prove myself God to ​YOU; and ​YOU​ must prove yourselves holy, because I am holy.

⁴⁶“‘This is the law about the beast and the flying creature and every living soul that moves about in the waters and concerning every soul that swarms upon the earth,⁴⁷in order to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that is eatable and the living creature that may not be eaten.’”