Day 36 of 364

^11:1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, ^11:2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. ^11:3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat. ^11:4“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. ^11:5The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. ^11:6The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. ^11:7The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. ^11:8You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you. ^11:9“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. ^11:10All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, ^11:11and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses. ^11:12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you. ^11:13“‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, ^11:14the red kite, any kind of black kite, ^11:15any kind of raven, ^11:16the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, ^11:17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, ^11:18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, ^11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. ^11:20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you. ^11:21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth. ^11:22Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper. ^11:23But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you. ^11:24“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. ^11:25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. ^11:26“‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. ^11:27Whatever 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 evening. ^11:28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. ^11:29“‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, ^11:30the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon. ^11:31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. ^11:32Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean. ^11:33Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it. ^11:34All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. ^11:35Everything whereupon 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. ^11:36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. ^11:37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. ^11:38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. ^11:39“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. ^11:40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. ^11:41“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. ^11:42Whatever goes on its 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. ^11:43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. ^11:44For I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. ^11:45For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. ^11:46“‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, ^11:47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’” ^12:1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ^12:2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. ^12:3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. ^12:4She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. ^12:5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. ^12:6“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering. ^12:7He shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. ^12:8If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’” ^13:1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ^13:2“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. ^13:3The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. ^13:4If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. ^13:5The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. ^13:6The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. ^13:7But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. ^13:8The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. ^13:9“When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; ^13:10and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, ^13:11it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean. ^13:12“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest, ^13:13then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. ^13:14But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. ^13:15The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. ^13:16Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest. ^13:17The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean. ^13:18“When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, ^13:19and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. ^13:20The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. ^13:21But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. ^13:22If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. ^13:23But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. ^13:24“Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, ^13:25then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. ^13:26But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. ^13:27The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. ^13:28If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn. ^13:29“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, ^13:30then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard. ^13:31If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days. ^13:32On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, ^13:33then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days. ^13:34On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. ^13:35But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, ^13:36then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. ^13:37But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean. ^13:38“When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots, ^13:39then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean. ^13:40“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. ^13:41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, his forehead is bald. He is clean. ^13:42But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead. ^13:43Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, ^13:44he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. ^13:45“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ ^13:46All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp. ^13:47“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; ^13:48whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in leather, or in anything made of leather; ^13:49if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. ^13:50The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. ^13:51He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean. ^13:52He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire. ^13:53“If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; ^13:54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. ^13:55Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. ^13:56If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof; ^13:57and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire. ^13:58The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.” ^13:59This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.