1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, telling them,
2 "Say to the children of Israel: These are the creatures you may eat out of all the beasts on the earth.
3 Any among the beasts that has a hoof divided and cloven through, and that brings up the cud, you may eat.
4 But of those that bring up the cud or have a divided hoof, these you must not eat: the camel, for though it brings up the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
5 The rock hyrax, for though it brings up the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
6 The hare, for though it brings up the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
7 And the pig, for though it has a hoof divided and cloven through, it does not bring up the cud; it is unclean for you.
8 Of their flesh you must not eat, and their carcasses you must not touch; they are unclean for you.
9 "Of all that live in the waters, these you may eat: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas or in the rivers, those you may eat.
10 But whatever lacks fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, among all that swarm in the waters and all living creatures in the waters, they are abhorrent to you.
11 They shall be abhorrent to you; do not eat of their flesh, and abhor their carcasses.
12 Anything in the waters without fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
13 "These are the birds you shall abhor; they must not be eaten, for they are abhorrent: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
14 the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
15 every raven after its kind,
16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, and the hawk after its kind,
17 the little owl, the fishing owl, the great owl,
18 the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture,
19 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 "Every winged swarming creature that walks on all fours is abhorrent to you.
21 But among all the winged swarming creatures that walk on all fours, you may eat those that have legs above their feet for leaping on the earth.
22 Of these you may eat the following: the locust after its kind, the bald locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
23 Every other winged swarming creature that has four feet is abhorrent to you.
24 "By these you will make yourselves unclean: anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until evening,
25 and anyone who carries any of their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.
26 Every beast that has a divided hoof but is not cloven-footed, or does not bring up the cud, is unclean for you; anyone who touches them will be unclean.
27 And any of the four-footed beasts that walks on its paws is unclean for you; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until evening,
28 and one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
29 "Of the swarming things that swarm on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard after its kind,
30 the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
31 These are the ones unclean for you among all the swarming things; anyone who touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.
32 Anything on which one of them falls when they are dead becomes unclean, whether an article of wood or clothing or leather or sackcloth—any article put to use. It must be placed in water and will be unclean until evening; then it will be clean.
33 If one of them falls into any clay pot, everything inside it becomes unclean, and you must break the pot.
34 Any food that could be eaten, on which water comes, becomes unclean, and any drink that could be drunk from any such vessel becomes unclean.
35 Everything on which any part of their carcass falls becomes unclean; an oven or a cooking stove must be smashed. They are unclean, and they shall be unclean for you.
36 However, a spring or a cistern, a gathering of water, remains clean; but whoever touches their carcass becomes unclean.
37 If any part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing, it is clean.
38 But if water has been put on the seed and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
39 "If one of the animals that you may eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.
40 Anyone who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.
41 "Every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is abhorrent; it must not be eaten.
42 Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever walks on all fours, or whatever has a great many feet—any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth—you must not eat them, for they are abhorrent.
43 Do not make yourselves abhorrent with any swarming thing that swarms; do not make yourselves unclean by them and so be defiled through them.
44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves, then, and be holy, for I am holy. You must not make yourselves unclean with any swarming thing that creeps on the earth.
45 For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; so you shall be holy, for I am holy."
46 This is the law concerning beast and bird, every living creature that moves in the waters, and every creature that swarms on the earth,
47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten.