Leviticus 11 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
spoke to Moses and Aaron, telling them:
"Tell the Out of all the animals on the land, these are the ones you may eat:
Any animal that has a — completely split in two — and also its you may eat.
However, there are some animals that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof — you must not eat these: The camel chews its cud but doesn't have a split hoof, so it's for you.
The chews its cud but doesn't have a split hoof, so it's off-limits for you.
The chews its cud but doesn't have a split hoof, so it's off-limits for you.
And the has a split hoof — completely divided — but it doesn't chew its cud, so it's off-limits for you.
You must not eat their meat or even touch their dead bodies. They are off-limits for you.
"Out of everything that lives in the water, you may eat anything that has and whether in the seas or in freshwater streams.
But anything in the seas or streams that doesn't have both fins and scales — whether swarming creatures or any other living thing in the water — they are to you.
They must remain disgusting to you. You must not eat their meat, and you must treat their dead bodies as disgusting.
Anything in the water that doesn't have both fins and scales is disgusting to you.
"And these are the birds you must treat as disgusting — they must not be eaten, they are detestable: the the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
the kite and every kind of falcon,
every kind of raven,
the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the seagull, every kind of hawk,
the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
the stork, every kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the
"All that on all are disgusting to you.
However, you may eat winged insects that walk on all fours if they have jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
Of these, you may eat: any kind of any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
But every other winged insect that has four feet is disgusting to you.
"These will make you — anyone who touches their dead bodies will be until evening:
Anyone who picks up one of their dead bodies must wash their clothes and will be contaminated until evening.
Every animal that has a split hoof but not completely divided, or that doesn't chew its cud, is off-limits to you. Anyone who touches them becomes contaminated.
Any four-footed animal that walks on its paws is off-limits to you. Anyone who touches their dead bodies will be contaminated until evening.
Anyone who picks up their dead bodies must wash their clothes and will be contaminated until evening. These animals are off-limits to you.
"Of the that on the ground, these are off-limits to you: the weasel, the mouse, every kind of large lizard,
the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
Among all the small swarming creatures, these are off-limits to you. Anyone who touches them when they're dead will be contaminated until evening.
When any of them dies and falls on something, that thing becomes contaminated — whether it's a wooden container, clothing, leather, rough fabric, or any tool used for work. It must be put in water and will be contaminated until evening, then it becomes again.
If one falls into a everything in it becomes contaminated, and you must smash the
Any food that could be eaten but has water from that pot on it becomes contaminated. Any liquid that could be drunk from such a pot is contaminated.
Anything one of their dead bodies falls on becomes contaminated. If it's an oven or a stove, it must be smashed — it's contaminated, and you must treat it as contaminated.
However, a or a cistern that collects water stays acceptable. But anyone who touches the dead body in it becomes contaminated.
If one of their dead bodies falls on planting seed that's meant to be sown, the seed stays acceptable.
But if water has been put on the seed and then a dead body falls on it, the seed is contaminated for you.
"If an animal you're allowed to eat dies on its own, anyone who touches the dead body will be contaminated until evening.
Anyone who eats some of the dead body must wash their clothes and will be contaminated until evening. Anyone who picks up the dead body must wash their clothes and will be contaminated until evening.
"Every creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting — it must not be eaten.
Anything that on its anything that walks on all fours, or anything with many legs — all creatures that swarm on the ground — you must not eat them, because they are disgusting.
Do not make yourselves disgusting by any swarming creature. Don't contaminate yourselves with them or become contaminated through them.
For I am yourselves and be because I am Do not contaminate yourselves with any creature that swarms on the ground.
For I am Yahweh who you up out of to be your God. Be set apart, because I am set apart.
"This is the about animals, birds, every living creature that moves in the water, and every creature that swarms on the ground.
This is how to between what is off-limits and what is acceptable, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten."