¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them,

^{2 Ref} `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This `is' the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which `are' on the earth:

^{3 Ref} any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat.

⁴ `Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it `is' unclean to you;

^{5 Ref} and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it `is' to you;

^{6 Ref} and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it `is' to you;

^{7 Ref} and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up -- unclean it `is' to you.

^{8 Ref} `Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they `are' to you.

^{9 Ref} `This ye do eat of all which `are' in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

^{10 Ref} and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which liveth, which `is' in the waters -- an abomination they `are' to you;

¹¹ yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate.

¹² `Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it `is' to you.

^{13 Ref} `And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they `are': the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

¹⁴ and the vulture, and the kite after its kind,

^{15 Ref} every raven after its kind,

^{16 Ref} and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

¹⁷ and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

¹⁸ and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

^{20 Ref} `Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four -- an abomination it `is' to you.

²¹ `Only -- this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;

^{22 Ref} these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;

²³ and every teeming thing which is flying, which hath four feet -- an abomination it `is' to you.

^{24 Ref} `And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;

^{25 Ref} and anyone who is lifting up `aught' of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --