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Leviticus 11

Clean and Unclean Animals

(Deuteronomy 14.3-21)

   You may eat ³any animal that has divided hoofs and chews the cud. ^{[a] 4-8}But you must not eat animals such as camels, rock badgers, and rabbits that chew the cud but don't have divided hoofs. And you must not eat pigs--they have divided hoofs, but don't chew the cud. All of these animals are unclean, ^[b] and you are forbidden even to touch their dead bodies. ^9-12You may eat anything that lives in water and has fins and scales. But it would be disgusting for you to eat anything else that lives in water, and you must not even touch their dead bodies.

    ^13-19Eagles, vultures, buzzards, crows, ostriches, hawks, sea gulls, owls, pelicans, storks, herons, hoopoes, ^[c] and bats are also disgusting, and you are forbidden to eat any of them. ^20-23The only winged insects you may eat are locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets. All other winged insects that crawl are too disgusting for you to eat.

    ^24-28Don't even touch the dead bodies of animals that have divided hoofs but don't chew the cud. And don't touch the dead bodies of animals that have paws. If you do, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

    ^29-30Moles, rats, mice, and all kinds of lizards are unclean. ³¹Anyone who touches their dead bodies or anything touched by their dead bodies becomes unclean until evening. ³²If something made of wood, cloth, or leather touches one of their dead bodies, it must be washed, but it is still unclean until evening. ³³If any of these animals is found dead in a clay pot, the pot must be broken to pieces, and everything in it becomes unclean. ³⁴If you pour water from this pot on any food, that food becomes unclean, and anything drinkable in the pot becomes unclean.

    ³⁵If the dead body of one of these animals touches anything else, including ovens and stoves, that thing becomes unclean and must be destroyed. ³⁶A spring or a cistern where one of these dead animals is found is still clean, but anyone who touches the animal becomes unclean. ³⁷If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean. ³⁸But seeds that are soaking in water become unclean, if the dead animal is found in the water.

    ³⁹If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening. ⁴⁰If you eat any of its meat or carry its body away, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

    ^41-42Don't eat any of those disgusting little creatures that crawl or walk close to the ground. ⁴³If you eat any of them, you will become just as disgusting and unclean as they are. ⁴⁴I am the LORD your God, and you must dedicate yourselves to me and be holy, just as I am holy. Don't become disgusting by eating any of these unclean creatures. ⁴⁵I brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. Now you must become holy, because I am holy!

    ^46-47I have given these laws so that you will know what animals, birds, and fish are clean and may be eaten, and which ones are unclean and may not be eaten.

Leviticus 12

What Women Must Do after Giving Birth

   If a woman gives birth to a son, she is unclean for seven days, just as she is during her monthly period. ³Her son must be circumcised on the eighth day, ⁴but her loss of blood keeps her from being completely clean for another thirty-three days. During this time she must not touch anything holy or go to the place of worship. ⁵Any woman who gives birth to a daughter is unclean for two weeks, just as she is during her period. And she won't be completely clean for another sixty-six days.

    ⁶When the mother has completed her time of cleansing, she must come to the front of the sacred tent and bring to the priest a year-old lamb as a sacrifice to please me ^[d] and a dove or a pigeon as a sacrifice for sin. ⁷After the priest offers the sacrifices to me, the mother will become completely clean from her loss of blood, whether her child is a boy or a girl. ⁸If she cannot afford a lamb, she can offer two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice to please me and the other as a sacrifice for sin.

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Matthew 26

The Plot To Kill Jesus

(Mark 14.1,2; Luke 22.1,2; John 11.45-53)

    ³At that time the chief priests and the nation's leaders were meeting at the home of Caiaphas the high priest. ⁴They planned how they could sneak around and have Jesus arrested and put to death. ⁵But they said, "We must not do it during Passover, because the people will riot."

At Bethany

(Mark 14.3-9; John 12.1-8)

   Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me. ¹¹You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me. ¹²She has poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial. ^{[b] 13}You may be sure that wherever the good news is told all over the world, people will remember what she has done. And they will tell others.

Judas and the Chief Priests

(Mark 14.10,11; Luke 22.3-6)

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13; John 13.21-30)

    ¹⁸Jesus told them to go to a certain man in the city and tell him, "Our teacher says, `My time has come! I want to eat the Passover meal with my disciples in your home.' " ¹⁹They did as Jesus told them and prepared the meal.

    ^20-21When Jesus was eating with his twelve disciples that evening, he said, "One of you will surely hand me over to my enemies."

    ²²The disciples were very sad, and each one said to Jesus, "Lord, you can't mean me!"

    ²³He answered, "One of you men who has eaten with me from this dish will betray me. ²⁴The Son of Man will die, as the Scriptures say. But it's going to be terrible for the one who betrays me! That man would be better off if he had never been born."

    ²⁵Judas said, "Teacher, you surely don't mean me!"

   "That's what you say!" Jesus replied. But later, Judas did betray him.