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11 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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

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

⁴ Nevertheless 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.

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

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

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

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

⁹ These 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;

¹⁰ But 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)

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

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

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

¹⁴ The kite, the whole species of falcon,

¹⁵ Every kind of raven,

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

¹⁷ The owl, the cormorant, the ibis,

¹⁸ The swan, the pelican, the vulture,

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

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

²¹ Yet 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.

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

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

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

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

²⁶ Every 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.

²⁷ And 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,

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

²⁹ These 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,

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

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

³² And 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.

³³ And 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.

³⁴ Of 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.

³⁵ And 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.

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

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

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

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

⁴⁰ And 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.

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

⁴² Whatever 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.

⁴³ You 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.

⁴⁴ For 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)

⁴⁵ For 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)

⁴⁶ This 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,

⁴⁷ To 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.

12 And the Lord said to Moses,

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

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

⁴ Then 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.

⁵ But 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.

⁶ When 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;

⁷ And 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.

⁸ If 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)

13 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

² When 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.

³ The 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.

⁴ If 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.

⁵ And 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.

⁶ And 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.

⁷ But 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.

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

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

¹⁰ And 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,

¹¹ It 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.

¹² But 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,

¹³ The 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.

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

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

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

¹⁷ And 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.

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

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

²⁰ And 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.

²¹ But 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.

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

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

²⁴ Or 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,

²⁵ Then 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.

²⁶ But 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.

²⁷ And 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.

²⁸ But 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.

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

³⁰ The 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.

³¹ If 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.

³² On 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,

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

³⁴ On 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.

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

³⁶ Then 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.

³⁷ But 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.

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

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

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

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

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

⁴³ Then 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,

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

⁴⁵ And 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!

⁴⁶ He 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.

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

⁴⁸ Whether 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,

⁴⁹ If 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.

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

⁵¹ He 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.

⁵² He 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.

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

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

⁵⁵ And 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.

⁵⁶ If 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.

⁵⁷ If 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.

⁵⁸ But 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.

⁵⁹ This 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.