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Leviticus 11:33-47 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

33. And any clay vessel into which it falls shall become unclean, and you must break it.

34. Any of the food that could be eaten on which water from such a vessel comes shall become unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk in any such vessel shall become unclean.

35. And anything on which one of their dead bodies falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken—they are unclean and shall be unclean for you.

36. Surely a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but that which touches their dead body shall become unclean.

37. And when one of their dead bodies falls on any seed for sowing, it is clean.

38. But when water is put on the seed and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you.

39. “ ‘And when one of the animals dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening.

40. And the one who eats some of its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening; and the one who carries its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

41. “ ‘And any swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

42. You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on all fours, even any with numerous feet belonging to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they are detestable.

43. You must not defile yourselves with any swarmer that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by them and so be made unclean by them,

44. because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,

45. because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy.

46. “ ‘This is the regulation of the animals and the birds and all living creatures that move along in the water and concerning all the creatures that swarm on the land,

47. to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.’ ”

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