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Leviticus 11:29-44 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

35. Everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or stove, it shall be broken to pieces. They are unclean and shall be unclean to you.

36. Nevertheless a fountain or cistern where there is plenty of water shall be clean, but whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean.

37. If any part of their carcass falls on any grain seed that is to be sown, it shall be clean.

38. But if any water is put on the seed, and any part of their carcass fall on it, it shall be unclean to you.

39. If any animal from which you may eat dies, whoever touches the carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

40. And the person who eats of the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. The person who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

41. Every crawling thing that moves on the ground shall be detestable. It shall not be eaten.

42. Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet from any crawling things that move on the earth, you shall not eat them for they are detestable.

43. You shall not make yourselves detestable with any crawling thing that moves, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should thereby be defiled by them.

44. For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of crawling thing that moves on the ground.

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