Leviticus Chapter 11
Ceremonially Clean and Unclean Animals
1-2 Again the LORD told Moses and Aaron to tell the Israelites,
“You can eat animals 3 that have a split hoof and chew cud. 4-6 Don’t eat anything that just chews cud or only has a split hoof: a camel or rock-badger or rabbit. 7 Don’t eat a pig; it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew cud. 8 Don’t eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they’re ceremonially unclean. Lev 11:1-8
9 “You can eat anything in the water—seas and rivers—that has fins and scales. 10-11 Any marine life that doesn’t have fins and scales is repulsive to you; detest their carcasses. [ 12 ]
13 “Detest these birds and don’t eat them: eagles, vultures, buzzards, 14 kites, falcons of any kind, 15 ravens of any kind, 16 ostrices, owls, sea gulls, hawks of any kind, 17 little owls, cormorants, ibises, 18 water hens, pelicans, carrion vultures, 19 storks, herons of any kind, hoopoes, or bats.
20 “Detest most winged insects that walk on four legs. 21 Eat only the ones that have jointed legs and hop on the ground: 22 any kind of locust, cricket, or grasshopper. [ 23 ]
Lev 11:9-23
24 “Touching a carcass makes you ceremonially unclean. 25 If you pick it up, you have to wash your clothes and be unclean until evening. 26 Touching a ceremonially unclean animal—that doesn’t chew cud and split hoofs—makes you unclean. 27 Any four-footed animal that walks on paws is ceremonially unclean. Touching its carcass makes you unclean. 28 If you pick it up, wash your clothes and be unclean till evening.
Lev 11:24-28
29 “These things that crawl on the ground are ceremonially unclean: moles, mice, big lizards of any kind, 30 gechos, crocodiles, lizards, sand lizards of any kind, and chameleons. 31 Whoever touches them when they’re dead is unclean till evening. 32 Anything they fall on when they’re dead is also unclean: wooden articles, clothes, skins, sacks, anything you use. Put them in water till evening, and they’ll be clean.
Lev 11:29-32
33 “Any clay container that one of these ceremonially unclean things falls into is ceremonially unclean. Break it. 34 Any food in it that water gets on is likewise unclean. Water or any liquid a person might drink in any container becomes unclean. 35 Anything that part of their carcass falls on becomes unclean. Smash an oven or stove; they’re permanently unclean. 36 A spring or cistern that collects water is clean even though the one that has touched their carcasses is unclean. 37 If any part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing, it’s clean. 38 But, if water gets on that seed, it’s ceremonially unclean.
Lev 11:33-38
39 “If an animal dies that you have for food, touching its carcass makes you ceremonially unclean till evening. 40 If you pick it up or eat some of it, wash your clothes and be unclean till evening.
Lev 11:39-40
41 “Don’t eat anything that crawls on the ground: 42 anything that crawls on its belly, walks on four legs, or has many feet is detestable. 43 Don’t make yourselves ceremonially unclean by them. 44 Consecrate yourselves and be holy. 45 I’m the LORD that brought you up from Egypt to be your God. Be holy because I’m holy.”
46 That’s the law about animals, birds, marine life, or what crawls on the ground 47 so you can distinguish ceremonially clean from unclean, edible from not edible.
Lev 11:41-47