But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

Clean and Unclean Food

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.

The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.

You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.

or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

Uncleanness in the Camp

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the Lord had commanded Moses.