Bible Verses About Sanitation

"Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat.

But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.

"You may eat any clean bird;

but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,

kites, any kind of buzzard,

any kind of raven,

ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

little owls, great owls, horned owls,

pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.

"All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;

but all clean flying creatures you may eat.

"You are not to eat any animal that dies naturally; although you may let a stranger staying with you eat it, or sell it to a foreigner; because you are a holy people for ADONAI your God. "You are not to boil a young animal in its mother's milk.

and exchange the money for anything you want - cattle, sheep, wine, other intoxicating liquor, or anything you please - and you are to eat there in the presence of ADONAI your God, and enjoy yourselves, you and your household.

rather, eat it on your own property; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, like the gazelle or the deer.

Just don't eat its blood, but pour it out on the ground like water.

"If someone has committed a capital crime and is put to death, then hung on a tree,

his body is not to remain all night on the tree, but you must bury him the same day, because a person who has been hanged has been cursed by God -so that you will not defile your land, which ADONAI your God is giving you to inherit.

If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp; he is not to enter the camp.

When evening arrives he is to bathe himself in water, and after sunset he may enter the camp.

Also you are to have an area outside the camp to use as a latrine.

You must include a trowel with your equipment, and when you relieve yourself, you are to dig a hole first and afterwards cover your excrement.

"When there is an outbreak of tzara'at, be careful to observe and do just what the cohanim, who are L'vi'im, teach you. Take care to do as I ordered them.

"'A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his father's wife, because he has violated his father's rights.'All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

"'A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with any kind of animal.' All the people are to say, 'Amen!'