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Leviticus 11

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Clean and Unclean Foods
Dt 14:3–20
1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them: 2#Mt 15:11; Heb 9:10Speak to the children of Israel, saying: These are the living things which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth. 3Whatever animal has a parted hoof (that is, split-hoofed), and chews the cud among the animals, that one you shall eat.
4Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that have a divided hoof: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean to you; 5#Ps 104:18; Pr 30:26the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean to you; 6#Dt 14:7the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean to you; 7#Isa 65:4; 66:3the pig, though it does have a divided hoof (that is, split-hoofed), yet it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you; 8#Isa 52:11; Heb 9:10you shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you must not touch; they are unclean to you.
9These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: Whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, these you shall eat; 10#Lev 7:18all that do not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, from all that move in the waters and from any living thing that is in the waters, they are detestable to you; 11they shall be detestable to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. 12Whatever has no fins or scales in the waters is detestable to you.
13These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, and the black vulture, 14the kite, and buzzard of any kind, 15the raven of any kind, 16and the eagle owl, the short-eared and long-eared owls, and the hawk of any kind, 17and the little owl, the cormorant, and the screech owl, 18and the white owl, the scops owl, and the osprey, 19and the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20All flying insects that walk, moving on all fours, shall be detestable to you. 21Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet with which to hop on the ground. 22#Mt 3:4; Mk 1:6Even of these you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. 23But all other flying insects that have four feet shall be detestable to you.
24And by these you shall be unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of these shall be unclean until the evening.
Unclean Animals
25#Lev 11:40; 14:8Whoever carries any of the carcasses of these shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 26The carcass of every animal that divides the hoof but is not completely split-hoofed nor chews the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 27Whatever animal that walks on its paws, among all manner of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 28He who carries the carcass of these shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
29#Lev 11:41–42These also shall be unclean to you among the crawling things that move on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, and the great lizard of any kind, 30and the gecko, the lizard, the wall gecko, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 31These are unclean to you among all that crawl. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. 32#Lev 15:12And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it be an article of wood or clothing or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean. 33#Lev 6:28; 15:12Every clay vessel into which any of these falls, everything in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it. 34Any food in it that may be eaten on which water is poured shall be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 35Everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or stove, it shall be broken to pieces. They are unclean and shall be unclean to you. 36Nevertheless a fountain or cistern where there is plenty of water shall be clean, but whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean. 37If any part of their carcass falls on any grain seed that is to be sown, it shall be clean. 38But if any water is put on the seed, and any part of their carcass fall on it, it shall be unclean to you.
39If any animal from which you may eat dies, whoever touches the carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 40#Lev 22:8; Eze 44:31And the person who eats of the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. The person who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41#Lev 11:29Every crawling thing that moves on the ground shall be detestable. It shall not be eaten. 42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet from any crawling things that move on the earth, you shall not eat them for they are detestable. 43#Lev 20:25; 11:41–42You shall not make yourselves detestable with any crawling thing that moves, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should thereby be defiled by them. 44#Lev 19:2; Ex 19:6For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of crawling thing that moves on the ground. 45#Ex 6:7; 20:2; Ps 105:43–45For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.
46This is the law for the animals, and the fowls, and every living creature that moves in the waters, and every creature that crawls on the ground, 47#Lev 10:10; Eze 44:23to differentiate between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

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