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Themes in Leviticus 11
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Themes in Leviticus 11

Leviticus 11:1

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

Leviticus 11:2

"Speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'These [are] the animals that you may eat from all the animals that [are] on the land:

Leviticus 11:3

Any among the animals that has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in [the] hoof, such you may eat.

Leviticus 11:4

However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:5

and the coney, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:6

and the hare, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;

Leviticus 11:7

and the pig, because it has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof but it does not chew cud--it [is] unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:8

You must not eat from their meat, and you must not touch their dead body--they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:9

" 'These you may eat from all that [are] in the water: any in the water that has a fin and scales, [whether] in the seas or in the streams--such you may eat.

Leviticus 11:10

But any that does not have a fin and scales, [whether] in the seas or in the streams, {among} all the water's swarmers among all the living creatures that [are] in the water--they [are] a detestable thing to you.

Leviticus 11:11

And they shall be detestable to you; you must not eat from their meat, and you must detest their dead body.

Leviticus 11:12

Any that does not have a fin and scales in the water--it [is] a detestable thing to you.

Leviticus 11:13

" 'And these you must detest from the birds; they must not be eaten--they [are] detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,

Leviticus 11:14

and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind,

Leviticus 11:15

every crow according to its kind,

Leviticus 11:16

and {the ostrich} and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

Leviticus 11:17

and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl,

Leviticus 11:18

and the barn owl and the desert owl and the carrion vulture,

Leviticus 11:19

and the stork, the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.

Leviticus 11:20

" 'Any {winged insect} that walks on [all] fours [is] detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:21

Only this may you eat from any of {the winged insects} that walk on [all] fours--[that] which has jointed legs above its feet for leaping upon the land.

Leviticus 11:22

{From these} you may 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.

Leviticus 11:23

But any [other] {winged insect} that has four legs [is] detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:24

And by these you shall become unclean--anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:25

and anyone who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:26

" '[With regard] to any animal that has a divided hoof but does not split the hoof, or does not have a cud [for] chewing--they [are] unclean for you; anyone who touches them shall become unclean.

Leviticus 11:27

And anything that walks upon its paws among any of the animals that walks on [all] fours--they [are] unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:28

and the one who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening--they [are] unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:29

" 'And these [are] the unclean for you among the swarmers that swarm on the land: the weasel and the mouse and the thorn-tailed lizard according to its kind,

Leviticus 11:30

and the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon.

Leviticus 11:31

These [are] the unclean for you among all the swarmers; anyone who touches them at their death shall become unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:32

And anything on which {one of them} falls at their death shall become unclean: any object of wood or garment or skin or sackcloth--any object that has performed work--must be placed in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and [then] it shall be clean.

Leviticus 11:33

And any clay vessel into which it falls shall become unclean, and you must break it.

Leviticus 11:34

Any of the food that could be eaten on which water [from such a vessel] comes shall become unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk in any [such] vessel shall become unclean.

Leviticus 11:35

And anything on which {one of their dead bodies} falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken--they [are] unclean and shall be unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:36

Surely a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but that which touches their dead body shall become unclean.

Leviticus 11:37

And when {one of their dead bodies} falls on any {seed for sowing}, it [is] clean.

Leviticus 11:38

But when water is put on [the] seed and {one of their dead bodies} falls on it, it [is] unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:39

" 'And when {one of the animals} dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

And the one who eats {some of} its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening; and the one who carries its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:41

" 'And any swarmer that swarms on the land [is] detestable; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:42

You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on [all] fours, even any [with] numerous feet [belonging] to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they [are] detestable.

Leviticus 11:43

You must not defile yourselves with any swarmer that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by them and [so] be made unclean by them,

Leviticus 11:44

because I [am] Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I [am] holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,

Leviticus 11:45

because I [am] Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I [am] holy.

Leviticus 11:46

" 'This is the regulation of the animals and the birds and all living creatures that move along in the water and {concerning} all the creatures that swarm on the land,

Leviticus 11:47

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.'"
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