Leviticus 11:10-41

10However, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting.

11They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies disgusting.

12Every creature in the water without fins or scales is disgusting to you.

13“Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

14kites, all types of buzzards,

15all types of crows,

16ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

17little owls, cormorants, great owls,

18barn owls, pelicans, ospreys,

19storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

20“Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

21However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground.

22You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.

23Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

24“Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

25Whoever carries any part of their dead bodies must wash his clothes. He will be unclean until evening.

26All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that don’t chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean.

27All four-legged animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

28Those who carry the dead body of any of these animals must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.

29“The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you—moles, mice, and all types of lizards:

30geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons.

31Among all the swarming creatures that move on the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

32When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. Then it will be clean ⌞again⌟.

33“If any of these creatures falls into a piece of pottery, break the pottery because everything in it is unclean.

34If water ⌞from that pottery⌟ touches any food, the food is unclean. Any liquid that you drink from that pottery is unclean.

35Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

36However, a spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean.

37If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean.

38But if water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you.

39“When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.

40Those who eat any of its dead body must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. Those who carry its dead body away will wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening.

41“Any creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting and must not be eaten.