Leviticus 11 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Clean and Unclean Land Animals

11 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ²‘Tell the Israelites: You may eat^(A) all these kinds of land animals.^(B) ³You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud. ⁴But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

camels,^(C) though they chew the cud,

do not have divided hooves – they are unclean for you;

⁵hyraxes,^(D) though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves – they are unclean for you;

⁶hares, though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves – they are unclean for you;

⁷pigs, though they have divided hooves,

do not chew the cud – they are unclean for you.

⁸Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses – they are unclean for you.^(E)

Clean and Unclean Aquatic Animals

⁹‘This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: you may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams. ¹⁰But these are to be abhorrent to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures^(F) in the water. ¹¹They are to remain abhorrent to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must abhor their carcasses. ¹²Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be abhorrent to you.

Unclean Birds

¹³‘You are to abhor these birds. They must not be eaten because they are abhorrent:

eagles,^[a]^(G) bearded vultures,

Egyptian vultures,^[b] ¹⁴kites,^[c]

any kind of falcon,^[d]^(H)

¹⁵every kind of raven, ¹⁶ostriches,^[e]

short-eared owls, gulls,^[f]

any kind of hawk,^(I)

¹⁷little^[g] owls, cormorants,^[h]

long-eared owls,^[i]^(J)

¹⁸barn^[j] owls, eagle owls,^[k]^(K)

ospreys, ¹⁹storks,^[l]

any kind of heron,^[m]

hoopoes, and bats.

Clean and Unclean Flying Insects

²⁰‘All winged insects that walk on all fours are to be abhorrent to you. ²¹But you may eat these kinds of all the winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. ²²You may eat these:

any kind of locust,^(L) cicada, cricket, and grasshopper.

²³All other winged insects that have four feet are to be abhorrent to you.

Purification after Touching Dead Animals

²⁴‘These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean^(M) until evening, ²⁵and whoever carries any of their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.^(N) ²⁶All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean. ²⁷All the four-footed animals^(O) that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, ²⁸and anyone who carries their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

²⁹‘These creatures that swarm^(P) on the ground are unclean for you:

weasels,^[n] mice,^(Q)

any kind of large lizard,^[o]

³⁰geckos, monitor lizards,^[p]

common lizards,^[q] skinks,^[r]

and chameleons.^[s]

³¹These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening. ³²When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean – any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth,^(R) or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean. ³³If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you are to break it. ³⁴Any edible food^(S) coming into contact with that unclean water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean. ³⁵Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it is to be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you. ³⁶A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean. ³⁷If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean; ³⁸but if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean for you.

³⁹‘If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening. ⁴⁰Anyone who eats some of its carcass is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Unclean Swarming Creatures

⁴¹‘All the creatures that swarm on the earth are abhorrent; they must not be eaten. ⁴²Do not eat any of the creatures that swarm on the earth, anything that moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet,^[t] for they are abhorrent. ⁴³Do not become contaminated by any creature that swarms; do not become unclean or defiled by them. ⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God,^(T) so you must consecrate yourselves^(U) and be holy because I am holy.^(V) Do not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground. ⁴⁵For I am the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God,^(W) so you must be holy because I am holy.^(X)

⁴⁶‘This is the law concerning animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that swarm on the ground, ⁴⁷in order to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the animals^(Y) that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.’

Footnotes

11:13 Or griffon-vultures
11:13 Or ospreys, or bearded vultures
11:14 Or hawks
11:14 Or buzzards, or hawks
11:16 Or eagle owls
11:16 Or long-eared owls
11:17 Or tawny
11:17 Or pelicans
11:17 Or ibis
11:18 Or little
11:18 Or pelicans, or horned owls
11:19 Or herons
11:19 Or cormorants, or hawks
11:29 Or mole rats, or rats
11:29 Or of thorn-tailed, or dabb lizard, or of crocodile
11:30 Or spotted lizards, or chameleons
11:30 Or geckos, or newts, or salamanders
11:30 Or sand lizards, or newts, or snails
11:30 Or salamanders, or moles
11:42 Lit fours, to anything multiplying pairs of feet

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