Leviticus [Pertaining to Levites] 11:24-46

²⁴“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁵Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

²⁶“‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

²⁷Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁸He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

²⁹“‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

³⁰the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

³¹These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

³²On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean. (7)

³³Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

³⁴All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

³⁵Everything where part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

³⁶Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

³⁷If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

³⁸But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

³⁹“‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁰He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

⁴¹“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is detestable. It shall not be eaten.

⁴²Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

⁴³You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

⁴⁴For I am Adonai your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

⁴⁵For I am Adonai who brought you up out of the land of Egypt Abode of slavery, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

⁴⁶“‘This is the Torah ·Teaching· of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,