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| | Lev 11:1 | Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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| | Lev 11:2 | "Give the following instructions to the Israelites: The animals you may use for food
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| | Lev 11:3 | include those that have completely divided hooves and chew the cud.
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| | Lev 11:4 | You may not, however, eat the animals named here because they either have split hooves or chew the cud, but not both. The camel may not be eaten, for though it chews the cud, it does not have split hooves.
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| | Lev 11:5 | The same is true of the rock badger
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| | Lev 11:6 | and the hare, so they also may never be eaten.
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| | Lev 11:7 | And the pig may not be eaten, for though it has split hooves, it does not chew the cud.
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| | Lev 11:8 | You may not eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
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| | Lev 11:9 | "As for marine animals, you may eat whatever has both fins and scales, whether taken from fresh water or salt water.
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| | Lev 11:10 | You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. You are to detest them,
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| | Lev 11:11 | and they will always be forbidden to you. You must never eat their meat or even touch their dead bodies.
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| | Lev 11:12 | I repeat, any marine animal that does not have both fins and scales is strictly forbidden to you.
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| | Lev 11:13 | "These are the birds you must never eat because they are detestable for you: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
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| | Lev 11:14 | the buzzard, kites of all kinds,
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| | Lev 11:15 | ravens of all kinds,
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| | Lev 11:16 | the ostrich, the nighthawk, the seagull, hawks of all kinds,
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| | Lev 11:17 | the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
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| | Lev 11:18 | the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture,
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| | Lev 11:19 | the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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| | Lev 11:20 | "You are to consider detestable all swarming insects that walk along the ground.
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| | Lev 11:21 | However, there are some exceptions that you may eat. These include insects that jump with their hind legs:
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| | Lev 11:22 | locusts of all varieties, crickets, bald locusts, and grasshoppers. All these may be eaten.
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| | Lev 11:23 | But you are to consider detestable all other swarming insects that walk or crawl.
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| | Lev 11:24 | "The following creatures make you ceremonially unclean. If you touch any of their dead bodies, you will be defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:25 | If you move the dead body of an unclean animal, you must immediately wash your clothes, and you will remain defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:26 | "Any animal that has divided but unsplit hooves or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. If you touch the dead body of such an animal, you will be defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:27 | Of the animals that walk on all fours, those that have paws are unclean for you. If you touch the dead body of such an animal, you will be defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:28 | If you pick up and move its carcass, you must immediately wash your clothes, and you will remain defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:29 | "Of the small animals that scurry or creep on the ground, these are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, the great lizard of all varieties,
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| | Lev 11:30 | the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
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| | Lev 11:31 | All these small animals are unclean for you. If you touch the dead body of such an animal, you will be defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:32 | If such an animal dies and falls on something, that object, whatever its use, will be unclean. This is true whether the object is made of wood, cloth, leather, or sackcloth. It must be put into water, and it will remain defiled until evening. After that, it will be ceremonially clean and may be used again.
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| | Lev 11:33 | "If such an animal dies and falls into a clay pot, everything in the pot will be defiled, and the pot must be smashed.
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| | Lev 11:34 | If the water used to cleanse an unclean object touches any food, all of that food will be defiled. And any beverage that is in such an unclean container will be defiled.
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| | Lev 11:35 | Any object on which the dead body of such an animal falls will be defiled. If it is a clay oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed to pieces. It has become defiled, and it will remain that way.
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| | Lev 11:36 | "However, if the dead body of such an animal falls into a spring or a cistern, the water will still be clean. But anyone who removes the dead body will be defiled.
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| | Lev 11:37 | If the dead body falls on seed grain to be planted in the field, the seed will still be considered clean.
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| | Lev 11:38 | But if the seed is wet when the dead body falls on it, the seed will be defiled.
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| | Lev 11:39 | "If an animal that is permitted for eating dies and you touch its carcass, you will be defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:40 | If you eat any of its meat or carry away its carcass, you must wash your clothes. Then you will remain defiled until evening.
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| | Lev 11:41 | "Consider detestable any animal that scurries along the ground; such animals may never be eaten.
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| | Lev 11:42 | This includes all animals that slither along on their bellies, as well as those with four legs and those with many feet. All such animals are to be considered detestable.
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| | Lev 11:43 | Never defile yourselves by touching such animals.
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| | Lev 11:44 | After all, I, the LORD, am your God. You must be holy because I am holy. So do not defile yourselves by touching any of these animals that scurry along the ground.
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| | Lev 11:45 | I, the LORD, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God. You must therefore be holy because I am holy.
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| | Lev 11:46 | "These are the instructions regarding the land animals, the birds, and all the living things that move through the water or swarm over the earth,
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| | Lev 11:47 | so you can distinguish between what is unclean and may not be eaten and what is clean and may be eaten."
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