Clean and unclean
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✭And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 2 📚✭“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. 3 📚You may eat whatever has a divided hoof or a cloven hoof and chews the cud among animals. 4 “But you shall not eat of these that chew the cud or of these that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you; 5 📚and the coney, because it chews the cud, but does not have the divided hoof; it is unclean for you; 6 📚and the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not have the divided hoof; it is unclean for you; 7 📚and the pig, though it has the divided hoof, the cloven hoof, yet it does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. 8 📚You shall not eat their meat, and shall not touch their carcass. They are unclean for you.
9 📚“Of all that live in the waters you may eat these: You may eat whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers. 10 📚But all that do not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, are to be an abomination to you. 11 Yes, they are to be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their meat, and you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination. 12 Whatever has no fins or scales in the waters is to be an abomination to you.
13 📚“And these are the ones among the birds which you shall regard as an abomination; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, 14 and the vulture, and any kind of kite, 15 📚every kind of raven, 16 📚and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and every kind of hawk, 17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 18 and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, 19 and the stork, every kind of heron, and the lapwing, and the bat.
20 📚“All flying creatures that walk on all fours, shall be an abomination to you. 21 But among all the flying creatures that walk on all fours you may eat those that have legs above their feet with which to leap on the ground. 22 📚These are the ones among them that you may eat: every kind of locust, and every kind of bald locust, and every kind of cricket, and every kind of grasshopper. 23 But all other flying creatures which have four feet shall be an abomination to you.
24 📚✭“And by these you will be made unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until evening, 25 📚and whoever picks up one of their carcasses shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening.
26 ✭“The carcass of any animal that has the divided hoof but not completely split hoof, and does not chew the cud, are unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 27 📚And among all kinds of animals that walk on all fours, whatever walks on its paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until evening. 28 📚And he who picks up their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
29 📚“And among the creeping things that creep on the ground these shall be unclean for you: the weasel, and the mouse, and every kind of the great lizard, 30 and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 31 📚Among all the creeping things these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening. 32 📚And if any of them when they are dead falls on anything, it shall be unclean, whether it is any article of wood or clothing or hide or sack; whatever article it may be with which any work is done, it must be put in water, and it shall be unclean until evening; then it becomes clean. 33 📚And whatever is in any earthenware pot in which any of them falls shall be unclean; and you shall break it. 34 📚Any food which could be eaten on which water comes from such a pot shall be unclean; and any liquid that could be drunk in any such pot shall be unclean. 35 📚And on whatever any part of their carcass falls, that shall be unclean, whether it is an oven or a stove. It shall be smashed, for they are unclean, and shall be unclean for you. 36 📚But a spring or a cistern where water collects shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean. 37 📚And if any part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing, it shall be clean. 38 But if any water has been put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it shall be unclean for you.
39 📚✭“And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening. 40 📚And he who eats its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening; and he who picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening.
41 📚“And every creeping thing that creeps on the ground is to be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. 42 📚You shall not eat anything that moves on the belly, or anything that walks on all fours, or anything that has many feet among all the creeping things that creep on the ground; for they are an abomination. 43 📚You shall not make yourselves abominable by any creeping thing that creeps, or make yourselves unclean by them so that you become defiled by them. 44 📚For I am the LORD your God. Therefore you shall sanctify yourselves. And you shall be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that creeps on the ground. 45 📚For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. So you shall be holy, for I am holy.