Leviticus 11 — FBV

11Verse 1The Lord told Moses and Aaron,^{Verse 2}“Give these instructions to the Israelites. These are the animals you are allowed to eat:^{Verse 3}any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.^{Verse 4}However, if it either chews the cud, or has a divided hoof, then you may not eat it. These include: the camel, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.^{Verse 5}The rock hyrax, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.^{Verse 6}The hare, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.^{Verse 7}The pig, which though it has a divided hoof doesn't chew the cud, so it is unclean for you.^{Verse 8}You are not to eat their meat or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.^{Verse 9}You are allowed to eat any creature with fins and scales that lives in the water, whether in the sea or in fresh water.^{Verse 10}But you are not allowed to eat any of the many creatures that don't have fins and scales that live in the water, whether in the sea or in fresh water.^{Verse 11}They are repulsive.⁺You must not eat their meat, and you must treat their dead bodies as repulsive.^{Verse 12}All such water creatures that don't have fins and scales are to be repulsive to you.^{Verse 13}As for the birds,⁺these must not be eaten because they are repulsive: eagle, griffon vulture, bearded vulture,^{Verse 14}buzzard, kite and similar birds of prey,^{Verse 15}any raven or crow,^{Verse 16}tawny owl, long-eared owl, gulls, any kind of hawk,^{Verse 17}little owl, fish owl, eagle owl,^{Verse 18}barn owl, desert owl, Egyptian vulture,^{Verse 19}storks and any kind of heron, hoopoe, and bats.^{Verse 20}All flying insects that crawl⁺are repulsive to you.^{Verse 21}But you can eat the following kinds of flying insects that crawl: those that have jointed legs they use to jump.^{Verse 22}So in this category you can eat any kind of locust, bald locust, cricket, or grasshopper.^{Verse 23}All other flying insects that crawl are repulsive to you,^{Verse 24}and will make you unclean. If you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until the evening,^{Verse 25}and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening.^{Verse 26}Every animal with hooves that are not divided, or that does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. If you touch any of them you will be unclean.^{Verse 27}Any four-legged animal that walks on its paws are unclean for you. If you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until the evening,^{Verse 28}and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening. They are unclean for you.^{Verse 29}The following animals⁺that run along the ground are unclean for you: rats, mice, any kind of large lizards,^{Verse 30}geckos, monitor lizards, wall lizards, skinks, and chameleons.^{Verse 31}These animals that run along the ground are unclean for you. If you touch a dead one of them you will be unclean until the evening.^{Verse 32}Anything that one of them dies and lands on becomes unclean. Whatever it is—something made of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any work tool—it must be washed with water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.^{Verse 33}If one of them falls into a clay pot, all that's in it becomes unclean. You must smash the pot.^{Verse 34}If water from that pot touches any food, that food becomes unclean, and any drink from a pot like that also becomes unclean.^{Verse 35}Anything that one of their dead bodies falls on becomes unclean. If it's an oven or a stove,⁺it must be smashed. It is permanently unclean for you.^{Verse 36}On the other hand, if it's a spring or cistern containing water then it will remain clean, but if you touch one of these dead bodies in it you will be unclean.^{Verse 37}Similarly, if one of their dead bodies falls on any seed used for sowing, the seed remains clean;^{Verse 38}but if the seed has been soaked in water and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you.^{Verse 39}If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the dead body will be unclean until the evening.^{Verse 40}If you eat anything from the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening. If you pick up the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening.^{Verse 41}Every animal that crawls along the ground is repulsive—you must not eat it.^{Verse 42}Don't eat any animal that crawls along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on four feet or many feet. All such animals are repulsive.^{Verse 43}Don't defile yourselves by any such crawling animal. Don't make yourselves unclean or defiled by them,^{Verse 44}because I am the Lord your God; so dedicate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Don't defile yourselves by any animal that crawls along the ground.^{Verse 45}I am the Lord who led you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. So be holy, because I am holy.^{Verse 46}These are the regulations about animals, birds, everything that lives in the water, and all animals that crawl along the ground.^{Verse 47}You must recognize the difference between unclean and clean, between those animals that can be eaten and those that can't.”