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Leviticus 11:20-23-36 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

20-23. The only winged insects you may eat are locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets. All other winged insects that crawl are too disgusting for you to eat.

24-28. Don't even touch the dead bodies of animals that have divided hoofs but don't chew the cud. And don't touch the dead bodies of animals that have paws. If you do, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

29-30. Moles, rats, mice, and all kinds of lizards are unclean.

31. Anyone who touches their dead bodies or anything touched by their dead bodies becomes unclean until evening.

32. If something made of wood, cloth, or leather touches one of their dead bodies, it must be washed, but it is still unclean until evening.

33. If any of these animals is found dead in a clay pot, the pot must be broken to pieces, and everything in it becomes unclean.

34. If you pour water from this pot on any food, that food becomes unclean, and anything drinkable in the pot becomes unclean.

35. If the dead body of one of these animals touches anything else, including ovens and stoves, that thing becomes unclean and must be destroyed.

36. A spring or a cistern where one of these dead animals is found is still clean, but anyone who touches the animal becomes unclean.

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