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Leviticus - ch 11 v 21 - 40
- But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,
- That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.
- But of dying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you:
- And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening:
- And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead, he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.
- Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.
- That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.
- And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.
- These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that move upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind:
- The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stello, and the lizard, and the mole:
- 31All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.
- And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths; or any thing in which work is done, they shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so afterwards shall be clean.
- But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled, and therefore is to be broken.
- Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean.
- And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean: whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.
- But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.
- If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.
- But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.
- If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening:
- And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.
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