Leviticus 11

1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,

2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.Cross-references: Lev 11:4 · Lev 11:9 · Lev 11:11 · Lev 11:13 · Lev 11:21 · Lev 11:29 · +14 more

3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.Cross-references: Deut 6:6 · Deut 16:3 · Ps 1:1 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 2:10 · Prov 9:6 · +3 more

4“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

5The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.Cross-references: Job 36:14 · Ps 104:18 · Prov 30:26 · Matt 7:26 · Rom 2:18 · Phil 3:18 · +2 more

6The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.Cross-references: Deut 14:7

7The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.Cross-references: Deut 14:8 · Isa 65:4 · Isa 66:3 · Isa 66:17 · Matt 7:6 · Luke 8:33 · +2 more

8You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.Cross-references: Lev 5:2 · Isa 52:11 · Hos 9:3 · Matt 15:11 · Matt 15:20 · Mark 7:2 · +14 more

9“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.Cross-references: Deut 14:9 · Acts 20:21 · Gal 5:6 · James 2:18 · 1John 5:2

10All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,Cross-references: Lev 7:18 · Deut 14:3 · Ps 139:21 · Prov 13:20 · Prov 29:27 · Rev 21:8

11and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.

12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.

13“‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,Cross-references: Deut 14:12 · Job 28:7 · Job 38:41 · Job 39:27 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 4:22 · +8 more

14the red kite, any kind of black kite,

15any kind of raven,Cross-references: Gen 8:7 · 1Ki 17:4 · 1Ki 17:6 · Prov 30:17 · Luke 12:24

16the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,Cross-references: Deut 14:15 · Ps 102:6 · Isa 13:21 · Isa 34:11 · John 3:19 · Eph 2:2 · +5 more

17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.Cross-references: Lev 11:23 · Lev 11:27 · Deut 14:19 · 2Ki 17:28 · Ps 17:14 · Matt 6:24 · +5 more

21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.

22Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.Cross-references: Ex 10:4 · Isa 35:3 · Matt 3:4 · Mark 1:6 · Rom 14:1 · Rom 15:1 · +2 more

23But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.

24“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.Cross-references: Lev 11:8 · Lev 11:27 · Lev 11:31 · Lev 11:38 · Lev 17:15 · Isa 22:14 · +8 more

25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.Cross-references: Ex 19:10 · Ex 19:14 · Lev 11:28 · Lev 11:40 · Lev 14:8 · Lev 14:47 · +19 more

26“‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew 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.Cross-references: Lev 11:20 · Lev 11:23

28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.Cross-references: Lev 11:24

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,Cross-references: Lev 11:20 · Lev 11:41 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 17:13 · Isa 66:17 · Hag 2:6 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 11:8 · Lev 11:24

32Anything they fall on when they are dead 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.Cross-references: Lev 6:28 · Lev 15:12 · Titus 2:14 · Titus 3:5

33Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.Cross-references: Lev 6:28 · Lev 11:35 · Lev 14:45 · Lev 15:12 · Jer 48:38 · 2Cor 5:1 · +1 more

34All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.Cross-references: Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:4 · Prov 21:27 · Prov 28:8 · Titus 1:15

35Everything whereupon 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.Cross-references: Lev 6:28 · Lev 11:33 · Lev 15:12 · 2Cor 5:1

36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.Cross-references: Zech 13:1 · John 4:14

37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.Cross-references: 1Cor 15:37 · 1Pet 1:23 · 1John 3:9 · 1John 5:18

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.Cross-references: Lev 11:24 · Lev 11:28 · Lev 11:31 · Lev 11:40 · Lev 15:5 · Lev 15:7 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 22:31 · Lev 11:25 · Lev 11:28 · Lev 14:8 · Lev 15:5 · Lev 15:27 · +15 more

41“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.Cross-references: Lev 11:20 · Lev 11:23 · Lev 11:29

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 an abomination.Cross-references: Gen 3:14 · Isa 65:25 · Mic 7:17 · Matt 3:7 · Matt 23:23 · John 8:44 · +3 more

43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.Cross-references: Lev 11:41 · Lev 20:25

44For I am Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 6:7 · Ex 19:6 · Ex 20:2 · Ex 23:25 · Lev 10:3 · Lev 11:43 · +17 more

45For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.Cross-references: Ex 6:7 · Ex 20:2 · Lev 11:44 · Lev 25:38 · Ps 105:43 · Hos 11:1 · +2 more

46“‘This is the law 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,Cross-references: Lev 7:37 · Lev 14:54 · Lev 15:32 · Ezek 43:12

47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”Cross-references: Lev 10:10 · Ezek 44:23 · Mal 3:18 · Rom 14:2 · Rom 14:13