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Leviticus 11:2-35

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2“Give these instructions to the Israelites. These are the animals you are allowed to eat:
3any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.
4However, if it either chews the cud, or has a divided hoof, then you may not eat it. These include: the camel, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.
5The rock hyrax, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.
6The hare, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.
7The pig, which though it has a divided hoof doesn't chew the cud, so it is unclean for you.
8You are not to eat their meat or touch their bead bodies. They are unclean for you.
9You are allowed to eat any creature with fins and scales that lives in the water, whether in the sea or in fresh water.
10But you are not allowed to eat any of the many creatures that don't have fins and scales that live in the water, whether in the sea or in fresh water.
11They are repulsive. You must not eat their meat, and you must treat their dead bodies as repulsive.
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.

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