1 And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This will be the beast which you eat out of all the beasts which are on the earth: 3 any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it. 4 Only, this you will not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof: the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not divided—it will be unclean to you. 5 And the hyrax, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not divided—it will be unclean to you. 6 And the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof has not divided—it will be unclean to you. 7 And the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it does not bring up the cud—it will be unclean to you. 8 You will not eat of their flesh, and you will not come against their carcass—they will be unclean to you. 9 This you eat of all which are in the waters: anything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them you eat. 10 And anything that does not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which lives, which is in the waters—they will be an abomination to you. 11 Indeed, they are an abomination to you. You will not eat of their flesh, and you detest their carcass. 12 Anything that does not have fins and scales in the waters—it will be an abomination to you. 13 And these you detest of the bird—they will not be eaten, they will be an abomination: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey, 14 and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind, 15 every raven according to its kind, 16 and the ostrich, and the nightjar *, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind, 17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 18 and the waterhen, and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, 19 and the stork, the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 20 Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four legs—it will be an abomination to you. 21 Only, this you eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which has legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth. 22 These of them you eat: the locust according to its kind, and the bald locust according to its kind, and the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind. 23 And every teeming thing which is flying, which has four feet—it will be an abomination to you. 24 And you will be made unclean by these. Anyone who is coming against their carcass will be unclean until the evening. 25 And anyone who is lifting up of their carcass will wash his garments, and will be unclean until the evening— 26 even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and is not bringing up the cud—they will be unclean to you. Anyone who is coming against them will be unclean. 27 And anything going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four—they will be unclean to you. Anyone who is coming against their carcass will be unclean until the evening. 28 And he who is lifting up their carcass will wash his garments, and will be unclean until the evening—they will be unclean to you. 29 And this will be the unclean to you among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the muroid, and the tortoise * according to its kind, 30 and the gecko *, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 31 These will be the unclean to you among all which are teeming. Anyone who is coming against them in their death will be unclean until the evening. 32 And anything on which anyone of them falls, in their death, will be unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done will be brought into water, and will be unclean until the evening, then it will be clean. 33 And any earthen vessel, into the middle of which any one of them falls, all that will be in its middle will be unclean, and you break it. 34 Of all the food which is eaten, that on which comes such water, will be unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any such vessel will be unclean. 35 And anything on which any of their carcass falls will be unclean. Oven or double pots, it will be broken down, they will be unclean, indeed, they will be unclean to you. 36 Only, a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcass will be unclean. 37 And when any of their carcass falls on any sown seed which is sown—it will be clean. 38 And when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcass has fallen on it—it will be unclean to you. 39 And when any of the beasts which are for food for you dies, he who is coming against its carcass will be unclean until the evening. 40 And he who is eating of its carcass will wash his garments, and will be unclean until the evening. And he who is lifting up its carcass will wash his garments, and will be unclean until the evening. 41 And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth are an abomination, it will not be eaten. 42 Anything going on the belly, and any going on four, to every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth—you will not eat them, for they will be an abomination. 43 You do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do you make yourselves unclean with them, so that you will be unclean with them. 44 For I am your God YHWH, and you will sanctify yourselves, and you will be holy, for I am holy. And you will not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is crawling on the earth. 45 For I am YHWH who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God. And you will be holy, for I am holy. 46 This will be a law of the beasts, and of the bird, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth, 47 to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.”