Leviticus 11-13 (Amplified Bible)

Leviticus 11

 ¹AND THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    ²Say to the Israelites: These are the animals ^[a]which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.^(A)

    ³Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, any of these animals you may eat.

    ⁴Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or divide the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    ⁵And the coney or rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    ⁶And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    ⁷And the swine, because it divides the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

    ⁸Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

    ⁹These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, these you may eat;

    ¹⁰But all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all the creeping things in the waters, and of all the living creatures which are in the waters, they are [to be considered] an abomination and abhorrence to you.^(B)

    ¹¹They shall continue to be an abomination to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall detest their carcasses.

    ¹²Everything in the waters that has not fins or scales shall be abhorrent and detestable to you.

    ¹³These you shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, for they are detestable: the eagle, the ossifrage, the ospray,

    ¹⁴The kite, the whole species of falcon,

    ¹⁵Every kind of raven,

    ¹⁶The ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, every species of hawk,

    ¹⁷The owl, the cormorant, the ibis,

    ¹⁸The swan, the pelican, the vulture,

    ¹⁹The stork, all kinds of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

    ²⁰All winged insects that go upon all fours are to be an abomination to you;

    ²¹Yet of all winged insects that go upon all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet with which to leap on the ground.

    ²²Of these you may eat: the whole species of locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper.^(C)

    ²³But all other winged insects which have four feet shall be detestable to you.

    ²⁴And by [contact with] these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening,

    ²⁵And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

    ²⁶Every beast which parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

    ²⁷And all that go on their paws, among all kinds of four-footed beasts, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

    ²⁸And he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

    ²⁹These also are unclean to you among the creeping things [that multiply greatly] and creep upon the ground: the weasel, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

    ³⁰The gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.

    ³¹These are unclean to you among all that creep; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

    ³²And upon whatever they may fall when they are dead, it shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or clothing or skin (bottle) or sack, any vessel in which work is done; it must be put in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed.

    ³³And every earthen vessel into which any of these [creeping things] falls, whatever may be in it shall be unclean, and you shall break the vessel.

    ³⁴Of all the food [in one of these unclean vessels] which may be eaten, that on which such water comes shall be unclean, and all drink that may be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.

    ³⁵And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether an oven, or pan with a lid, or hearth for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

    ³⁶Yet a spring or a cistern or reservoir of water shall be clean; but whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean.

    ³⁷If a part of their carcass falls on seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean;

    ³⁸But if any water be put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it shall be unclean to you.

    ³⁹If any animal of which you may eat dies [unslaughtered], he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    ⁴⁰And he who eats of its carcass [ignorantly] 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.

    ⁴¹And everything that creeps on the ground and [multiplies in] swarms shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

    ⁴²Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has more [than four] feet among all things that creep on the ground and swarm you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

    ⁴³You shall not make yourselves loathsome and abominable [by eating] any swarming thing that [multiplies by] swarms, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

    ⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God; so consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy; neither defile yourselves with any manner of thing that multiplies in large numbers or swarms.^(D)

    ⁴⁵For I am the Lord Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.^(E)

    ⁴⁶This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and creeps on the earth and multiplies in large numbers,

    ⁴⁷To make a difference (a distinction) between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

   

Leviticus 12

 ¹AND THE Lord said to Moses,

    ²Say to the Israelites, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be unclean seven days, unclean as during her monthly discomfort.

    ³And on the eighth day the child shall be circumcised.

    ⁴Then she shall remain [separated] thirty-three days to be purified [from her loss] of blood; she shall touch no hallowed thing nor come into the [court of the] sanctuary until the days of her purifying are over.

    ⁵But if the child she bears is a girl, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her periodic impurity, and she shall remain separated sixty-six days to be purified [from her loss] of blood.

    ⁶When the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering to the door of the Tent of Meeting to the priest;

    ⁷And he shall offer it before the Lord and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female child.

    ⁸If she is unable to bring a lamb [for lack of means] then she shall bring two turtledoves or young pigeons, one for a burnt offering, the other for a sin offering; the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.^(F)

   

Leviticus 13

 ¹AND THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    ²When a man has a swelling on his skin, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes the disease of ^[b]leprosy in his skin, then he shall be brought to the priest, to Aaron or one of his sons.

    ³The priest shall look at the diseased spot on his skin, and if the hair in it has turned white and the disease appears depressed and deeper than his skin, it is a leprous disease; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

    ⁴If the bright spot is white on his skin, not depressed, and the hair on it not turned white, the priest shall quarantine the person or bind up the spot for seven days.

    ⁵And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the disease in his estimation is at a standstill and has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall quarantine the person or bind up the spot seven more days.

    ⁶And the priest shall examine him again the seventh day, and if the diseased part has a more normal color and the disease has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption or a scab; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

    ⁷But if the eruption or scab spreads farther in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.

    ⁸If the priest sees that the eruption or scab is spreading in the skin, then he shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

    ⁹When the disease of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought to the priest;

    ¹⁰And the priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin and the hair on it has turned white and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

    ¹¹It is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not bind the spot up, for he is unclean.

    ¹²But if [supposed] leprosy breaks out in the skin, and it covers all the skin of him who has the disease from head to foot, wherever the priest looks,

    ¹³The priest shall examine him; if the [supposed] leprosy covers all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it is all turned white, and he is clean.

    ¹⁴But when the raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

    ¹⁵And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.

    ¹⁶But if the raw flesh turns again and becomes white, he shall come to the priest,

    ¹⁷And the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased part is turned to white again, then the priest shall pronounce him clean who had the disease; he is clean.

    ¹⁸And when there is in the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,

    ¹⁹And in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish white, and it is shown to the priest,

    ²⁰And if when the priest examines it it looks lower than the skin and the hair on it is turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil.

    ²¹But if the priest examines it and finds no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but appears darker, then the priest shall bind it up for seven days.

    ²²If it spreads in the skin, [he] shall pronounce him unclean; it is diseased.

    ²³But if the bright spot does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

    ²⁴Or if there is any flesh in the skin of which there is a burn by fire and the quick flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish white or white,

    ²⁵Then the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot is turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy.

    ²⁶But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the rest of the skin but is darker, then the priest shall bind it up for seven days.

    ²⁷And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

    ²⁸But if the bright spot has not spread but is darker, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the burn.

    ²⁹When a man or woman has a disease upon the head or in the beard,

    ³⁰The priest shall examine the diseased place; if it appears to be deeper than the skin, with yellow, thin hair in it, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a mangelike leprosy of the head or beard.

    ³¹If the priest examines the spot infected by the mangelike disease, and it does not appear deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall bind up the spot for seven days.

    ³²On the seventh day the priest shall examine the diseased spot; if the mange has not spread and has no yellow hair in it and does not look deeper than the skin,

    ³³Then the patient shall be shaved, except the mangelike spot; and the priest shall bind up the spot seven days more.

    ³⁴On the seventh day the priest shall look at the mangelike spot; if the mange has not spread and looks no deeper than the skin, he shall pronounce the patient clean; he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

    ³⁵But if the mangelike spot spreads in the skin after his cleansing,

    ³⁶Then the priest shall examine him, and if the mangelike spot is spread in the skin, the priest need not look for the yellow hair; the patient is unclean.

    ³⁷But if in his estimation the mange is at a standstill and has black hair in it, the mangelike disease is healed; he is clean; the priest shall pronounce him clean.

    ³⁸When a man or a woman has on the skin bright spots, even white bright spots,

    ³⁹Then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots in the skin are a dull white, it is a harmless eruption; he is clean.

    ⁴⁰If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

    ⁴¹And if his hair has fallen out from the front of his head, he has baldness of the forehead, but he is clean.

    ⁴²But if there is on the bald head or forehead a reddish white diseased spot, it is leprosy breaking out on his baldness.

    ⁴³Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish white on his bald head or forehead like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

    ⁴⁴He is a leprous man; he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

    ⁴⁵And the leper's clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, Unclean, unclean!

    ⁴⁶He shall remain unclean as long as the disease is in him; he is unclean; he shall live alone [and] his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

    ⁴⁷The garment also that the disease of leprosy [symbolic of sin] is in, whether a wool or a linen garment,^(G)

    ⁴⁸Whether it be in woven or knitted stuff or in the warp or woof of linen or of wool, or in a skin or anything made of skin,

    ⁴⁹If the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in a skin or in the warp or woof or in anything made of skin, it is the plague of leprosy; show it to the priest.

    ⁵⁰The priest shall examine the diseased article and shut it up for seven days.

    ⁵¹He shall examine the disease on the seventh day; if [it] is spread in the garment, or in the article, whatever service it may be used for, the disease is a rotting or corroding leprosy; it is unclean.

    ⁵²He shall burn the garment, whether diseased in warp or woof, in wool or linen, or anything made of skin; for it is a rotting or corroding leprosy, to be burned in the fire.

    ⁵³But if the priest finds the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in anything made of skin,

    ⁵⁴Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.

    ⁵⁵And the priest shall examine the diseased article after it has been washed, and if the diseased portion has not changed color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire; it is a rotting or corroding [disease], whether the leprous spot be inside or outside.

    ⁵⁶If the priest looks and the diseased portion is less noticeable after it is washed, he shall tear it out of the garment, or the skin (leather), or out of the warp or woof.

    ⁵⁷If it appears still in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of skin, it is spreading; you shall burn the diseased part with fire.

    ⁵⁸But the garment, or the woven or knitted stuff or warp or woof, or anything made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.

    ⁵⁹This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of skin, to pronounce it clean or unclean.