Leviticus 11

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron , saying to them,

²Speak to the people of Israel , saying , These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth .

³Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven - footed and chews the cud , among the animals , you may eat .

⁴Nevertheless , among those that chew the cud or part the hoof , you shall not eat these: The camel , because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof , is unclean to you.

⁵And the rock badger , because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof , is unclean to you.

⁶And the hare , because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof , is unclean to you.

⁷And the pig , because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud , is unclean to you.

⁸You shall not eat any of their flesh , and you shall not touch their carcasses ; they are unclean to you.

⁹These you may eat , of all that are in the waters . Everything in the waters that has fins and scales , whether in the seas or in the rivers , you may eat .

¹⁰But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales , of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters , is detestable to you.

¹¹You shall regard them as detestable ; you shall not eat any of their flesh , and you shall detest their carcasses .

¹²Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

¹³And these you shall detest among the birds ; they shall not be eaten ; they are detestable : the eagle , the bearded vulture , the black vulture ,

¹⁴the kite , the falcon of any kind ,

¹⁵every raven of any kind ,

¹⁶the ostrich , the nighthawk , the sea gull , the hawk of any kind ,

¹⁷the little owl , the cormorant , the short-eared owl ,

¹⁸the barn owl , the tawny owl , the carrion vulture ,

¹⁹the stork , the heron of any kind , the hoopoe , and the bat .

²⁰All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.

²¹Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet , with which to hop on the ground .

²²Of them 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 winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.

²⁴And by these you shall become unclean . Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening ,

²⁵and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening .

²⁶Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean .

²⁷And all that walk on their paws , among the animals that go on all fours , are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening ,

²⁸and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening ; they are unclean to you.

²⁹And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground : the mole rat , the mouse , the great lizard of any kind ,

³⁰the gecko , the monitor lizard , the lizard , the sand lizard , and the chameleon .

³¹These are unclean to you among all that swarm . Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening .

³²And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean , whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack , any article that is used for any purpose . It must be put into water , and it shall be unclean until the evening ; then it shall be clean .

³³And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel , all that is in it shall be unclean , and you shall break it.

³⁴Any food in it that could be eaten , on which water comes , shall be unclean . And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean .

³⁵And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean . Whether oven or stove , it shall be broken in pieces . They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you.

³⁶Nevertheless , a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean , but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean .

³⁷And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown , it is clean ,

³⁸but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

³⁹And if any animal which you may eat dies , whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening ,

⁴⁰and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening . And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening .

⁴¹Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable ; it shall not be eaten .

⁴²Whatever goes on its belly , and whatever goes on all fours , or whatever has many feet , any swarming thing that swarms on the ground , you shall not eat , for they are detestable .

⁴³You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms , and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God . Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy , for I am holy . You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground .

⁴⁵For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God . You shall therefore be holy , for I am holy .

⁴⁶This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground ,

⁴⁷to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten .