Beginning

11 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

² Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

³ Whatever divides the hoof and is clovenfooted and chews the cud, among the animals, that shall you eat.

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

⁵ And the coney because it chews the cud, but divides not the hoof: it is unclean unto you.

⁶ And the hare because it chews the cud, but divides not the hoof: it is unclean unto you.

⁷ And the swine though it divides the hoof and is clovenfooted, yet it chews not the cud: it is unclean to you.

⁸ Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcase you shall not touch: they are unclean to you.

⁹ ¶ These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, those shall you eat.

¹⁰ But all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of any reptile in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you;

¹¹ they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall have their carcasses in abomination.

¹² Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

¹³ And these ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they shall be an abomination: the eagle, the ossifrage, the ospray,

¹⁴ the vulture, and the kite according to his species,

¹⁵ every raven according to his species,

¹⁶ the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, and the hawk according to his species;

¹⁷ the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

¹⁸ the swan, the pelican, the gier eagle,

¹⁹ the stork, the heron according to her species, the lapwing, and the bat.

²⁰ ¶ Every flying insect that creeps, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

²¹ Yet these may ye eat of every flying insect that goes upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with them upon the earth;

²² these of them ye may eat: the locust according to his species and the bald locust according to his species and the beetle according to his species and the grasshopper according to his species.

²³ But all other flying insects, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

²⁴ And for these ye shall be unclean: whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.

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

²⁶ The carcasses of every animal which divides the hoof and is not clovenfooted, nor chews the cud, are unclean unto you; everyone that touches them shall be unclean.

²⁷ And of all the animals that go on all four, any that walk upon their paws are unclean unto you; whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁸ And he that bears their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean unto you.

²⁹ These also shall be unclean unto you among the animals that creep upon the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the frog according to his species

³⁰ and the ferret and the lizard and the snail and the slug and the mole.

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

³² And everything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it be any vessel of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever instrument with which work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; and thus it shall be cleansed.

³³ And every earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break the vessel.

³⁴ All food which may be eaten upon which shall come water from any such vessel shall be unclean; and any drink that may be drunk shall be unclean in every such vessel.

³⁵ And everything upon which any part of their carcase falls shall be unclean: the oven or the chimney shall be broken down, for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.

³⁶ Nevertheless a fountain or cistern where water is collected shall be clean; but that which touches their carcase shall be unclean.

³⁷ And if any part of their carcase falls upon any sown seed which is sown, it shall be clean.

³⁸ But if any water is put upon the seed and any part of their carcase falls thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.

³⁹ And if any animal of which ye may eat dies, he that touches the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the evening;

⁴⁰ and he that eats of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; likewise he that bears the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

⁴¹ And every reptile that creeps upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

⁴² Whatever goes upon the belly and whatever goes upon four or more feet among all reptiles that creep upon the earth, ye shall not eat; for it is abomination.

⁴³ ¶ Ye shall not defile your souls with any reptile that creeps, neither shall ye contaminate yourselves with them, that ye should be unclean with them.

⁴⁴ For I am the LORD your God; ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; neither shall ye defile your souls with any reptile that moves upon the earth.

⁴⁵ For I am the LORD that causes you to come up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

⁴⁶ This is the law of the animals and of the fowls and of every living creature that moves in the waters and of every animal that creeps upon the earth:

⁴⁷ to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the animals that may be eaten and the animals that may not be eaten.

12 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed and gives birth to a man child, then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her menses shall she be unclean.

³ And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

⁴ And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days; she shall touch no holy thing, nor come to the sanctuary until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.

⁵ But if she gives birth to a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, according to her separation, and she shall be purifying herself for sixty-six days from her blood.

⁶ ¶ And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove as sin, unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, unto the priest,

⁷ who shall offer it before the LORD and reconcile her, and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that has given birth to a male or a female.

⁸ And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for the burnt offering and the other as sin; and the priest shall reconcile her, and she shall be clean.

13 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying,

² When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it is in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron, the priest, or unto one of his sons, the priests,

³ and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, and if the hair in the plague is turned white and the plague looks deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall recognize him and pronounce him unclean.

⁴ If the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh and looks to be not deeper than the skin and the hair thereof is not turned white; then the priest shall shut up the one that has the plague seven days;

⁵ and the priest shall look on him the seventh day and see if the plague in his sight is stayed and the plague is not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days the second time.

⁶ After this the priest shall look on him again the seventh day and see if the plague has darkened and that the plague is not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is but a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

⁷ But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin after he has been shown unto the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again;

⁸ and if the priest recognizes that the scab has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.

⁹ When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

¹⁰ and the priest shall see him; and if the rising looks white in the skin and it has turned the hair white and there is quick raw flesh in the rising,

¹¹ it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

¹² But if the leprosy breaks out abroad in the skin and the leprosy covers all the skin of him that has the plague from his head even to his feet wherever the priest looks,

¹³ then the priest shall consider; and if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the one that has the plague clean; it is all turned white; he is clean.

¹⁴ But the day that raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.

¹⁵ And the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean, for the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.

¹⁶ But when the raw flesh turns again and is changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;

¹⁷ and the priest shall see him; and if the plague is turned white; then the priest shall pronounce the one that has the plague clean, and he shall be clean.

¹⁸ ¶ And when in the flesh, in the skin thereof, there was a boil and is healed,

¹⁹ and in the place of the boil there is a white rising or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, it shall be shown to the priest;

²⁰ and the priest shall look, and if it appears to be lower than the skin and the hair thereof is turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.

²¹ But if the priest considers it and there appear to be no white hairs in it and it is not lower than the skin, but somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;

²² and if it spreads much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

²³ But if the bright spot stays in its place and does not spread, it is the scab of a boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

²⁴ Likewise when the flesh has in its skin a burn from fire, and in the place healed from the burn there a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white,

²⁵ then the priest shall look upon it; and if the hair in the bright spot is turned white and it looks deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out of the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy.

²⁶ But if the priest looks on it and there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is no lower than the other skin, but dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;

²⁷ and the priest shall recognize it the seventh day; and if it is spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy.

²⁸ And if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin, but it is dark, it is a rising of the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is an inflammation of the burn.

²⁹ If a man or woman has a plague upon the head or the beard,

³⁰ then the priest shall see the plague; and if it looks deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellowish and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a dry scall, leprosy of the head or beard.

³¹ But when the priest looks on the plague of the scall and if it does not look deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the one that has the plague of the scall seven days;

³² and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and if the scall appears not to have spread and there is no yellowish hair in it and the scall appears not to be deeper than the skin,

³³ he shall be shaven, but the place of the scall he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the one that has the scall for seven days the second time.

³⁴ And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and if the scall is not spread in the skin nor in appearance deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

³⁵ But if the scall spreads much in the skin after his cleansing,

³⁶ then the priest shall look at it; and if the scall is spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellowish hair; he is unclean.

³⁷ But if the scall appears to him to be stayed and there is black hair grown up in it, the scall is healed; he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

³⁸ ¶ Likewise if a man or a woman has in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots,

³⁹ the priest shall look; and if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh are darkish white, it is a freckled spot that grew in the skin; the person is clean.

⁴⁰ And the man whose hair has fallen off his head is bald; yet he is clean.

⁴¹ And if his hair has fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.

⁴² But if in the bald head, or bald forehead, there is a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

⁴³ Then the priest shall look upon it; and if the rising of the sore is white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

⁴⁴ he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

⁴⁵ And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent and his head uncovered, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

⁴⁶ All the days in which the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he shall be unclean; he shall dwell alone; outside the camp shall his habitation be.

⁴⁷ ¶ The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment;

⁴⁸ whether it is in the warp or woof; of linen or of woolen; whether in a skin or in anything made of skin;

⁴⁹ and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin, it is a plague of leprosy and shall be shown unto the priest.

⁵⁰ And the priest shall look upon the plague and shut up the thing that has the plague seven days.

⁵¹ And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day; if the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in a skin or in any work that is made of skins; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.

⁵² He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woolen or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is; for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

⁵³ And if the priest shall look and it appears that the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin,

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

⁵⁵ And the priest shall look on it after the plague has been washed; and if it appears that the plague has not changed its colour, even if the plague is not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether the bare spot is within or without.

⁵⁶ And if the priest looks and the plague appears to be darker after the washing of it, then he shall cut it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the warp or out of the woof.

⁵⁷ And if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in anything of skin, springing up again in it, thou shalt burn whatever the plague is in with fire.

⁵⁸ But the garment, either warp or woof or whatever thing of skin which thou shalt wash and from which the plague is removed, shall be washed the second time, and then it shall be clean.

⁵⁹ This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.