Leviticus 11:12-41

¹²All such water creatures that don't have fins and scales are to be repulsive to you.

¹³As for the birds, these must not be eaten because they are repulsive: eagle, griffon vulture, bearded vulture,

¹⁴buzzard, kite and similar birds of prey,

¹⁵any raven or crow,

¹⁶tawny owl, long-eared owl, gulls, any kind of hawk,

¹⁷little owl, fish owl, eagle owl,

¹⁸barn owl, desert owl, Egyptian vulture,

¹⁹storks and any kind of heron, hoopoe, and bats.

²⁰All flying insects that crawl are repulsive to you.

²¹But you can eat the following kinds of flying insects that crawl: those that have jointed legs they use to jump.

²²So in this category you can eat any kind of locust, bald locust, cricket, or grasshopper.

²³All other flying insects that crawl are repulsive to you,

²⁴and will make you unclean. If you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until the evening,

²⁵and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening.

²⁶Every animal with hooves that are not divided, or that does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. If you touch any of them you will be unclean.

²⁷Any four-legged animal that walks on its paws are unclean for you. If you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until the evening,

²⁸and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening. They are unclean for you.

²⁹The following animals that run along the ground are unclean for you: rats, mice, any kind of large lizard,

³⁰gecko, monitor lizard, wall lizard, skinks, and chameleon.

³¹These animals that run along the ground are unclean for you. If you touch a dead one of them you will be unclean until the evening.

³²Anything that one of them dies and lands on becomes unclean. Whatever it is—something made of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any work tool—it must be washed with water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

³³If one of them falls into a clay pot, all that's in it becomes unclean. You must smash the pot.

³⁴If water from that pot touches any food, that food becomes unclean, and any drink from a pot like that also becomes unclean.

³⁵Anything that one of their dead bodies falls on becomes unclean. If it's an oven or a stove, it must be smashed. It is permanently unclean for you.

³⁶On the other hand, if it's a spring or cistern containing water then it will remain clean, but if you touch one of these dead bodies in it you will be unclean.

³⁷Similarly, if one of their dead bodies falls on any seed used for sowing, the seed remains clean;

³⁸but if the seed has been soaked in water and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you.

³⁹If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the dead body will be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁰If you eat anything from the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening. If you pick up the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening.

⁴¹Every animal that crawls along the ground is repulsive—you must not eat it.