Leviticus 11-12New King James Version (NKJV)
Foods Permitted and Forbidden
11 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying to them, 2 “Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, ‘These are the animals which you may eat among
all the animals that are on the earth: 3 Among
the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing
the cud—that you may eat. 4 Nevertheless these you
shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves:
the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean
to you; 5 the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud
but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; 6 the
hare, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean
to you; 7 and the swine, though it divides the
hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean
to you. 8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their
carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.
9 ‘These you may eat of all
that are in the water: whatever in the water has fins and
scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers—that you may eat. 10 But
all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that
move in the water or any living thing which is in the water,
they are an abomination to you. 11 They
shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall
regard their carcasses as an abomination. 12 Whatever
in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be an
abomination to you.
13 ‘And these you shall regard as an
abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an
abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 14 the
kite, and the falcon after its kind; 15 every raven
after its kind, 16 the ostrich, the short-eared
owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind; 17 the
little owl, the fisher owl, and the screech owl; 18 the
white owl, the jackdaw, and the carrion vulture; 19 the
stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 ‘All flying insects that creep
on all fours shall be an abomination to
you. 21 Yet these you may eat of every flying
insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs
above their feet with which to leap on the earth. 22 These
you may eat: the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind,
the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. 23 But
all other flying insects which have four feet shall be
an abomination to you.
Unclean Animals
24 ‘By these you shall become
unclean; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until
evening; 25 whoever carries part of the carcass of
any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening: 26 The
carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but is not cloven-hoofed
or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who
touches it shall be unclean. 27 And whatever goes
on its paws, among all kinds of animals that go on all fours,
those are unclean to you. Whoever touches any such carcass
shall be unclean until evening. 28 Whoever
carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean
until evening. It is unclean to you.
29 ‘These also shall be unclean
to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse,
and the large lizard after its kind; 30 the gecko,
the monitor lizard, the sand reptile, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 31 These are unclean
to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be
unclean until evening. 32 Anything on which any of
them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any
item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in
which any work is done, it must be put in water. And it shall
be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean. 33 Any
earthen vessel into which any of them falls you shall break;
and whatever is in it shall be unclean: 34 in
such a vessel, any edible food upon which water falls becomes unclean, and any
drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean. 35 And
everything on which a part of any such carcass
falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or cooking
stove, it shall be broken down; for they are unclean,
and shall be unclean to you. 36 Nevertheless a
spring or a cistern, in which there is plenty of water, shall
be clean, but whatever touches any such carcass becomes unclean. 37 And
if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which
is to be sown, it remains clean. 38 But
if water is put on the seed, and if a part of any such carcass
falls on it, it becomes unclean to you.
39 ‘And if any animal which you may
eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening. 40 He
who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. He
also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until
evening.
41 ‘And every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be
eaten. 42 Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever
goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all
creeping things that creep on the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are an
abomination. 43 You shall not make yourselves
abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves
unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them. 44 For
I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore
consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy.
Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the
earth. 45 For I am the Lord who
brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be
holy, for I am holy.
46 ‘This is the law
of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the
waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 47 to
distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may
be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.’”
The Ritual After Childbirth
12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
‘If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean
seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be
unclean. 3 And on the eighth day the flesh of his
foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 She shall then
continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days.
She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the
days of her purification are fulfilled.
5 ‘But if she bears a female child,
then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she
shall continue in the blood of her purification sixty-six
days.
6 ‘When the days of her purification
are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a
lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove
as a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Then
he shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her. And she
shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for
her who has borne a male or a female.
8 ‘And if she is not able to bring a
lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a burnt
offering and the other as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement
for her, and she will be clean.’”
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