Old Testament

New Testament

Leviticus 11:20-34 Modern English Version (MEV)

20. All flying insects that walk, moving on all fours, shall be detestable to you.

21. Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet with which to hop on the ground.

22. Even of these you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.

23. But all other flying insects that have four feet shall be detestable to you.

24. And by these you shall be unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of these shall be unclean until the evening.

25. Whoever carries any of the carcasses of these shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

26. The carcass of every animal that divides the hoof but is not completely split-hoofed nor chews the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

27. Whatever animal that walks on its paws, among all manner of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

28. He who carries the carcass of these shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

29. These also shall be unclean to you among the crawling things that move on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, and the great lizard of any kind,

30. and the gecko, the lizard, the wall gecko, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.

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

32. And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it be an article of wood or clothing or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put in water. And it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.

33. Every clay vessel into which any of these falls, everything in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

34. Any food in it that may be eaten on which water is poured shall be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

Read complete chapter Leviticus 11