Leviticus 11

1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,

2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.

“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:

3 You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.

4 But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

5 And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

6 And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.

The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

7 And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

8 Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

9 These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.

10 All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;

But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.

11 They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.

They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

12 Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

13 And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

14 And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;

the kite, any kind of falcon,

15 Every raven, and birds of that sort;

any kind of raven,

16 And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

17 And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl;

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

18 And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture;

the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

19 The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

20 Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;

All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

21 But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;

However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

22 Such as all the different sorts of locust.

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

23 But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.

All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.

24 By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

25 Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening.

and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

26 Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean.

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

27 Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

28 Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

29 And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

30 And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon.

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

31 All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

32 The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean.

When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

33 And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken.

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

34 Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.

Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

35 Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

36 But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

37 If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

38 But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.

but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

39 And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.

40 And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

41 Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.

Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

42 Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.

43 You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

45 For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.

For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

46 This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.

47 Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”