Leviticus 11:24-44

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24By these you shall become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even; 25Whoever bears [anything] of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 26Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you: everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 27Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the even. 28He who bears the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean to you.

29These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, 30and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon. 31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever does touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32On whatever any of them, when they are dead, does fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it be, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean. 33Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and it you shall break. 34All food [therein] which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean. 35Every thing whereupon [any part] of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. 36Nevertheless a spring or a pit in which is a gathering of water shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. 37If [anything] of their carcass fall on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. 38But if water be put on the seed, and [anything] of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean to you.

39If any animal, of which you may eat, die; he who touches the carcass of it shall be unclean until the even. 40He who eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

41Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten. 42Whatever goes on the belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination. 43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby. 44For I am Yahweh your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 11:24-44 (WEB)