Sinai & The Law

even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up--unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean.

`And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four--unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening--unclean they are to you.

`And this is to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole;

these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

`And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which any one of them falleth, all that is in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

`Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh such water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any such vessel is unclean;

and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are , yea, unclean they are to you.

`Only--a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean;

and when any of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown--it is clean;

and when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcase hath fallen on it--unclean it is to you.

`And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;

and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

`And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;

any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth--ye do not eat them, for they are an abomination;

ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby.

`For I am Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

for I am Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I am holy.

`This is a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth,

to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she giveth seed, and hath born a male, then she hath been unclean seven days, according to the days of separation for her sickness she is unclean;

and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;