21. ‘Only, these you do eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.
22. ‘These of them you do eat: the locust after its kind, and the destroying locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
23. ‘But all other flying insects which have four feet is an abomination to you.
24. ‘And by these you are made unclean, anyone touching the carcass of any of them is unclean until evening,
25. and anyone picking up part of the carcass of any of them has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening.
26. ‘Every beast that has a split hoof not completely divided, or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass is unclean.
27. ‘And whatever goes on its paws, among all the creatures that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass is unclean until evening,
28. and he who picks up their carcass has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening. They are unclean to you.
29. ‘And these are unclean to you among the creeping creatures that creep on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,
30. and the gecko, and the land crocodile, and the sand reptile, and the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
31. ‘These are unclean to you among all that creep. Anyone who touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
32. ‘And whatever any of them in its dead state falls upon, becomes unclean, whether it is any wooden object or garment or skin or sack, any object in which work is done, it is put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening, then it shall be clean.
33. ‘Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you break it.
34. ‘Any of the food which might be eaten, on which water comes, becomes unclean, and any drink which might be drunk from it becomes unclean.
35. ‘And on whatever any of their carcass falls becomes unclean – an oven or cooking range – it is broken down. They are unclean, and are unclean to you.
36. ‘But a fountain or a well, a collection of water, is clean, but whatever touches their carcass is unclean.
37. ‘And when any of their carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it is clean.