1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,2Speak to the sons of Israel, saying to them: This is the living thing that you may eat from every animal that is upon the land.3Every animal that divides the hoof and cleaves the cleft of the hoof, bringing up the cud among the animals—you may eat it.4But this you shall not eat from those that bring up the cud or divide the hoof: the camel, because it brings up the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.5And the rock badger, because it brings up the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.6And the hare, because it brings up the cud but has not divided the hoof; it is unclean to you.7And the swine, because it divides the hoof and cleaves the cleft of the hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.8You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcass; they are unclean to you.9These you may eat from all that is in the water: everything that has a fin and scale in the seas and in the torrents—you may eat them.10But everything that has no fin and scale in the seas and in the torrents, from every swarm of the water and every living creature that is in the water, is detestable to you.11They shall be detestable to you; you shall not eat their flesh, and you shall detest their carcass.12Everything that has no fin and scale in the water is detestable to you.13These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, for they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture.14the kite, and the falcon according to its kind;15every raven according to its kind;16the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk according to its kind;17the little owl, the cormorant, and the great owl;18the water hen, the pelican, and the carrion vulture;19the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.20Every winged swarmer that walks on four is detestable to you.21But these you may eat from every winged swarmer that walks on four: those that have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the land.22These you may eat from them: the locust according to its kind, the destroying locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.23Every winged swarmer that has four feet is detestable to you.24By these you shall become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until evening.25Whoever carries any of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.26Every animal that divides the hoof but does not cleave the cleft and does not bring up the cud is unclean to you; whoever touches them shall be unclean.27Every creature that walks on its palms among all four-footed living things is unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until evening.28Whoever carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.29These are unclean to you among the swarmers that swarm on the land: the weasel, the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind.30The gecko, the reptile, the lizard, the lizard, and the chameleon.31These are unclean to you among all the swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.32Anything on which any of them falls when dead shall be unclean, whether any wooden object, garment, skin, or sackcloth—any object used for work—shall be put into water and remain unclean until evening, then become clean.33Every earthenware vessel into which any of them falls shall be unclean, together with everything in it, and you shall break the vessel.34Any food that may be eaten on which water comes shall be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk in any vessel shall be unclean.35Anything on which any of their carcass falls shall be unclean; an oven or stove shall be broken, for they are unclean and shall remain unclean to you.36A spring or cistern, a collection of water, shall remain clean, but whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean.37If any of their carcass falls on seed intended for sowing, the seed remains clean.38But if water is put on the seed and any of their carcass falls on it, the seed is unclean to you.39If any animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.40Whoever eats from its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; whoever carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.41Every swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable and shall not be eaten.42You shall not eat anything that moves on its belly or on four feet or on many feet among all the swarmers that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.43Do not make yourselves detestable with any swarmer that swarms, and do not defile yourselves with them so that you become unclean by them.44For I am the LORD your God; therefore consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any swarmer that creeps on the land.45For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, for I am holy.46This is the instruction concerning the animal, the bird, every living creature that creeps in the water, and every creature that swarms on the land,47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.