Lev 11:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.

Lev 11:3 Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.

Lev 11:4 Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you.

Lev 11:5 Likewise, the shaphan, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;

Lev 11:6 the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;

Lev 11:7 and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you.

Lev 11:8 You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Lev 11:9 'These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

Lev 11:10 But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

Lev 11:11 and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.

Lev 11:12 Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.

Lev 11:13 'These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Lev 11:14 and the kite and the falcon in its kind,

Lev 11:15 every raven in its kind,

Lev 11:16 and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,

Lev 11:17 and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl,

Lev 11:18 and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture,

Lev 11:19 and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

Lev 11:20 'All the winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

Lev 11:21 Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.

Lev 11:22 These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.

Lev 11:23 But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.

Lev 11:24 'By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

Lev 11:25 and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

Lev 11:26 Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof but do not make a split hoof, or which do not chew cud, they are unclean to you: whoever touches them becomes unclean.

Lev 11:27 Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

Lev 11:28 and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.

Lev 11:29 'Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,

Lev 11:30 and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.

Lev 11:31 These are to you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

Lev 11:32 Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden article, or clothing, or a skin, or a sack"any article of which use is made"it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean.

Lev 11:33 As for any earthenware vessel into which one of them may fall, whatever is in it becomes unclean and you shall break the vessel.

Lev 11:34 Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean.

Lev 11:35 Everything, moreover, on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you.

Lev 11:36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean.

Lev 11:37 If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

Lev 11:38 Though if water is put on the seed and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Lev 11:39 'Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

Lev 11:40 He too, who eats some of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening, and the one who picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

Lev 11:41 'Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten.

Lev 11:42 Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

Lev 11:43 Do not render yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.

Lev 11:44 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth.

Lev 11:45 For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"

Lev 11:46 This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

Lev 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.

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Lev 12:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 12:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:' When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.

Lev 12:3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Lev 12:4 Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.

Lev 12:5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.

Lev 12:6 'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

Lev 12:7 Then 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 bears a child, whether a male or a female.

Lev 12:8 But if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"

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Lev 13:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Lev 13:2 "When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

Lev 13:3 The priest shall look at the mark on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean.

Lev 13:4 But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate him who has the infection for seven days.

Lev 13:5 The priest shall look at him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the infection has not changed and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

Lev 13:6 The priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

Lev 13:7 "But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest.

Lev 13:8 The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

Lev 13:9 "When the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be brought to the priest.

Lev 13:10 The priest shall then look, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

Lev 13:11 it is a chronic leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

Lev 13:12 If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

Lev 13:13 then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; it has all turned white and he is clean.

Lev 13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

Lev 13:15 The priest shall look at the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.

Lev 13:16 Or if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest,

Lev 13:17 and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infection has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; he is clean.

Lev 13:18 "When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Lev 13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white, bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest;

Lev 13:20 and the priest shall look, and behold, if it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.

Lev 13:21 But if the priest looks at it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it and it is not lower than the skin and is faded, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days;

Lev 13:22 and if it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

Lev 13:23 But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Lev 13:24 "Or if the body sustains in its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,

Lev 13:25 then the priest shall look at it. And if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn. Therefore, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy.

Lev 13:26 But if the priest looks at it, and indeed, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days;

Lev 13:27 and the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy.

Lev 13:28 But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burn.

Lev 13:29 "Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

Lev 13:30 then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

Lev 13:31 But if the priest looks at the infection of the scale, and indeed, it appears to be no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person with the scaly infection for seven days.

Lev 13:32 On the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection, and if the scale has not spread and no yellowish hair has grown in it, and the appearance of the scale is no deeper than the skin,

Lev 13:33 then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall isolate the person with the scale seven more days.

Lev 13:34 Then on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale, and if the scale has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

Lev 13:35 But if the scale spreads farther in the skin after his cleansing,

Lev 13:36 then the priest shall look at him, and if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellowish hair; he is unclean.

Lev 13:37 If in his sight the scale has remained, however, and black hair has grown in it, the scale has healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Lev 13:38 "When a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the body, even white bright spots,

Lev 13:39 then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies are a faint white, it is eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

Lev 13:40 "Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.

Lev 13:41 If his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

Lev 13:42 But if on the bald head or the bald forehead, there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

Lev 13:43 Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

Lev 13:44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

Lev 13:45 "As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

Lev 13:46 He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Lev 13:47 "When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment,

Lev 13:48 whether in warp or woof, of linen or of wool, whether in leather or in any article made of leather,

Lev 13:49 if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, or in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, it is a leprous mark and shall be shown to the priest.

Lev 13:50 Then the priest shall look at the mark and shall quarantine the article with the mark for seven days.

Lev 13:51 He shall then look at the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in the leather, whatever the purpose for which the leather is used, the mark is a leprous malignancy, it is unclean.

Lev 13:52 So he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any article of leather in which the mark occurs, for it is a leprous malignancy; it shall be burned in the fire.

Lev 13:53 "But if the priest shall look, and indeed the mark has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather,

Lev 13:54 then the priest shall order them to wash the thing in which the mark occurs and he shall quarantine it for seven more days.

Lev 13:55 After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even though the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the top or on the front of it.

Lev 13:56 "Then if the priest looks, and if the mark has faded after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the leather, whether from the warp or from the woof;

Lev 13:57 and if it appears again in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak; the article with the mark shall be burned in the fire.

Lev 13:58 The garment, whether the warp or the woof, or any article of leather from which the mark has departed when you washed it, it shall then be washed a second time and will be clean."

Lev 13:59 This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.