1And the Lord spake to Moses and Aaron, and said,

2Say ye to the sons of Israel, Keep ye all things which I wrote to you, that I be your God. These be the beasts, which ye shall eat, of all the living beasts of earth;

3ye shall eat all things among beasts that have the claw parted, and cheweth the cud;

4soothly whatever thing cheweth cud, and hath a claw, but parteth not it, as a camel, and other beasts, ye shall not eat it, and ye shall areckon it among unclean things.

5A coney, which cheweth cud, and parteth not the claw, is unclean;

6and an hare, for also he cheweth cud, but parteth not the claw;

7and a swine, that cheweth not the cud, though he parteth the claw.

8Ye shall not eat the flesh of these beasts, neither ye shall touch their dead bodies, for those [or they] be unclean to you.

9Also these things be that be engendered in waters, and [it] is leaveful to eat; ye shall eat all things that have fins and scales, as well in the sea, as in [the] fresh floods, and standing waters;

10soothly whatever thing of them that be moved and live in waters, hath not fins and scales, shall be abominable, and loathsome to you;

11and ye shall not eat the flesh of those [or them], and ye shall eschew their bodies dead by themselves.

12All things in [the] waters that have not fins and scales, shall be polluted.

13These things be of fowls which ye shall not eat, and shall be eschewed [or shunned] of you; an eagle, and a gripe, [and] an aliet,

14and a kite, and a vulture by his kind;

15and all the kind of ravens by his likeness;

16a struthio, and a night crow, [and] a lari, or a coot, and a hawk by his kind;

17an owl, and a dipper, and ciconia;

18a swan, and a cormorant, and a pelican;

19a falcon, [and] a jay by his kind; [and] a lapwing, and a rearmouse, or a bat.

20All thing of fowls or insects that goeth on four feet, shall be abominable to you;

21soothly whatever thing goeth on four feet, but hath longer hips behind, by which it skippeth on the earth, ye shall eat;

22as is a bruchus, that is, the fruit of locusts before it hath wings, in his kind, and accatus, that is, the fruit of locusts when it beginneth to have wings, and ophimachus, [that is, a foul enemy to serpents], and a locust, all by their kind.

23Forsooth whatever thing of birds or insects hath four feet only, it shall be abominable to you;

24and whoever toucheth their bodies dead by themselves, shall be polluted, or defouled, and shall be unclean till to eventide;

25and if it is need, that he bear any dead thing of these [or them], he shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean till to the going down of the sun.

26Soothly each beast that hath a claw, but parteth not it, neither cheweth cud, shall be unclean; and whatever thing toucheth it, shall be defouled.

27That that goeth on hands, of all beasts that go on four feet, shall be unclean; he that toucheth their bodies dead by themselves, shall be defouled till to eventide;

28and he, that beareth such dead bodies, shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean till to eventide; for all these things be unclean to you.

29Also these things shall be areckoned among defouled things, of these things that be moved on earth; a weasel, and a mouse, and a crocodile, each after his kind;

30a migale, a chameleon, and [a] stellion, and a lacert, and a mouldwarp.

31All these be unclean; he that toucheth their bodies dead by them-selves, shall be unclean till to eventide;

32and that thing shall be defouled, on which anything of their bodies dead by themselves falleth, as well a vessel of wood, and a cloth, as skins, or pilches, either hair-shirts; and in whatever thing work is made, it shall be dipped in water, and those things shall be defouled till to eventide, and so afterward they shall be cleansed.

33Soothly a vessel of earth, in which anything of these falleth within, shall be defouled, and therefore it shall be broken.

34Each meat, that ye shall eat, shall be unclean, if water of such a vessel is poured out thereon; and each flowing thing, that is drunken of such a vessel, shall be unclean;

35and whatever thing of such dead bodies by themselves shall fall upon, it shall be unclean, whether furnaces, or kettles standing upon three feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

36Soothly wells and cisterns, and all the gatherings together of waters, shall be clean. He that toucheth their body dead by itself, shall be defouled.

37If it falleth upon seed, it shall not defoul the seed;

38soothly if any man sheddeth [or pour] out [the] seed with water, and afterward the water is touched with dead bodies by themselves, it shall be defouled anon.

39If a beast is dead, which it is leaveful to you to eat, he that toucheth the dead body thereof shall be unclean till to eventide;

40and he that eateth thereof anything, either beareth it, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean till to eventide.

41All thing that creepeth upon earth, shall be abominable, neither it shall be into meat.

42Whatever thing goeth upon the breast, and on four feet, and hath many feet, either is drawn by the earth, ye shall not eat it, for it is abominable.

43Do not ye defoul your souls, neither touch ye anything of them, lest ye be unclean;

44for I am your Lord God; be ye holy, for I am holy. Defoul ye not your souls in each creeping thing that is moved upon earth;

45for I am the Lord, that led you out of the land of Egypt, that I should be to you into God; ye shall be holy, for I am holy.

46This is the law of living beasts, and of fowls, and of each living thing that is moved in water, and creepeth in earth;

47that ye know the differences of clean thing and unclean, and that ye know what ye shall eat, and what ye owe to forsake.