Sinai & The Law

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth.

Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.

But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean.

The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean.

The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.

And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.

But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.

All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.

And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.

And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.

The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.

And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.

But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,

That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.

But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you.

And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:

And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.