Chapter 11
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The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them.
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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, "These are the living creatures that you may eat from all the beasts that are on the earth."
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Every animal that has a split hoof, completely split, and chews the cud among the beasts—you shall eat it.
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Only these you shall not eat from the cud-chewers and from the hoof-splitters: the camel, for it is a cud-chewer and it does not split the hoof; it is unclean to you.
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And the rock badger, for it brings up the cud by chewing, but does not split its hoof: it is ritually unclean to you.
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And the hare, because it brings up the cud but does not have a cloven hoof, it is ritually unclean to you.
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And the pig, because it splits the hoof and has a cloven hoof but does not chew the cud—it is unclean to you.
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From their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
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These you shall eat from all that are in the waters: all that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the streams—you shall eat them.
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And everything that does not have fins and scales in the seas and in the streams, from all swarming things of the waters and from all life of the life that is in the waters—they are detestable to you.
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And they shall be detestable to you; you shall not eat their flesh, and you shall detest their carcass.
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Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is an abomination to you.
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These you shall treat as ritually detestable among the birds—they shall not be eaten; they are ritually detestable: the eagle, the peres, and the black vulture.
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and the da'ah and the ayah according to its kind.
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every raven according to its kind
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the ostrich's daughter, the tachmas, the shachaf, and the netz, according to its kind.
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the cup, the shalakh, and the yanshuf.
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and the tinshemet and the qa'at and the raham.
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and the faithful one, the heron, according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Every swarming thing on the bird that walks on four is cultic to you.
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Only these you shall eat from all the swarming things of the flying creatures: the ones walking on four, which have legs above their feet to leap with them on the land.
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You may eat these from them: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.
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Every swarming thing among the birds that has four legs is unclean to you.
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And to these you shall become ritually impure; everyone touching their unclean carcass shall become ritually impure until the evening.
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And everyone who carries any of their carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening.
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Every beast that splits the hoof and chews the cud but does not chew the cud and does not bring it up is ritually unclean to you; everyone who touches them will become ritually unclean.
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And every one that walks on its palms among all the wild animals that walk on four—they are ritually unclean to you. Everyone touching their carcass will become ritually unclean until the evening.
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The one who carries their dead carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.
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These are the ritually unclean ones among the swarming things, the ones that swarm on the land: the chameleon, the mouse, and the toad, according to its kind.
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the anqa, the koah, the leta'ah, the homed, and the tinshemet.
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These are the ritually unclean ones for you among all the swarming creatures; anyone who touches them when they are dead will be ritually unclean until evening.
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And anything that falls on it from them in their dead state becomes ritually impure, whether from any wooden vessel or garment or skin or sack—any vessel in which work is done with them: in water it shall be brought, and it is ritually impure until evening and then pure.
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And every earthen vessel into which any of them falls—everything inside it becomes unclean, and you shall break it.
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Any food that may be eaten, if water comes on it, becomes unclean; and any drink that may be drunk, in any vessel, becomes unclean.
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And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls becomes ritually impure; oven and stove he shall break—they are ritually impure, and they shall be ritually impure to you.
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Only a spring or a pit, a gathering of waters, will be clean. But if it touches their carcass, it will become ritually impure.
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And if something from their carcass falls on any seed for sowing that is to be sown, it is clean.
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But if water is given on seed and some of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
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And if any of the livestock that you eat dies, the one who touches its carcass will become ritually impure until evening.
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And the one who eats from its carcass shall wash his garments and be ritually impure until evening; and the one who carries its carcass shall wash his garments and be ritually impure until evening.
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And every swarming creature that swarms on the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten.
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Every one that goes on its belly, and every one that goes on all fours, and every one that multiplies legs to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth—you shall not eat them, for they are an abomination.
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Do not make your nephesh detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and do not make yourselves unclean by them, so that you become unclean by them.
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For I am the LORD your God, and you shall consecrate yourselves and be holy ones, for I am holy, and you shall not make your nepheshs impure with any swarming thing, the creeping thing on the earth.
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For I, the LORD, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you shall be holy because I am holy.
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This is the Torah of the beast and the bird and every nephesh of the living creature, the creeping one in the waters, and every nephesh of the swarming one on the earth.
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to distinguish between the impure and the pure, and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that shall not be eaten.