1And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them:
2Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: This is the living thing (chai) which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
3Everything that parts the hoof, and is cleft, splitting the clefts of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, that you may eat.
4Only this you shall not eat, of those that bring up the cud, and of those that part the hoof: the camel, because it brings up the cud but it does not part the hoof, it is unclean to you.
5And the rock-badger, because it brings up the cud but it does not part the hoof, it is unclean to you.
6And the hare, because it brings up the cud but it does not part the hoof, it is unclean to you.
7And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is cleft, splitting the cleft, but it does not ruminate the cud, it is unclean to you.
8Of their flesh (basar) you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
9This you may eat of all that are in the waters: everything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you may eat.
10And all that have no fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of every living soul (nephesh) that is in the waters, they are a detestable thing to you.
11And they shall be a detestable thing to you; of their flesh (basar) you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall hold in detestation.
12Everything that has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing to you.
13And these you shall hold in detestation among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey;
14and the kite, and the falcon after its kind;
15every raven after its kind;
16and the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind;
17and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;
18and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;
19and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
20Every swarming thing of the birds that goes upon all fours is a detestable thing to you.
21Only this you may eat of every swarming thing of the birds that goes upon all fours, which has jointed legs above its feet, with which to leap upon the earth;
22These of them you may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
23But every swarming thing of the birds which has four feet is a detestable thing to you.
24And by these you shall become unclean; everyone who touches their carcass shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.
25And everyone who carries any of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.
26For every beast which parts the hoof but is not cleft in clefts, nor brings up the cud, they are unclean to you; everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
27And everything that goes upon its paws, among every living thing (chai) that goes upon all fours, they are unclean to you; everyone who touches their carcass shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.
28And he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening; they are unclean to you.
29And this is the unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,
30and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.
31These are the unclean to you among all that swarm; everyone who touches them when they are dead shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.
32And everything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether any vessel of wood, or garment, or skin, or sack, any vessel with which work is done, it shall be put into water, and it shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening; then it shall be clean.
33And every earthen vessel into whose midst any of them falls, everything that is in its midst shall be unclean, and it you shall break.
34Of all the food which may be eaten, that on which water comes shall be unclean; and all drink which may be drunk in any vessel shall be unclean.
35And everything upon which any of their carcass falls shall be unclean; an oven or a stove shall be broken down; they are unclean, and they shall be unclean to you.
36Only a spring or a cistern, a gathering of water, shall be clean; but he who touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37And if any of their carcass falls upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
38But if water is put upon the seed, and any of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39And if any of the beasts which is for you to eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.
40And he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and he who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41And every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten.
42Everything that goes upon the belly, and everything that goes upon all fours, up to everything that has many feet, of all the swarming things that swarm upon the earth, you shall not eat them; for they are a detestable thing.
43Do not make your souls (nephesh) detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and do not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be made unclean by them.
44For I am YHWH your God; and you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy; and you shall not defile your souls (nephesh) with any swarming thing that creeps upon the earth.
45For I am YHWH who brings you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; and you shall be holy, for I am holy.
46This is the Torah of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living soul (nephesh) that moves in the waters, and of every soul (nephesh) that swarms upon the earth;
47to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing (chai) that may be eaten and the living thing (chai) that may not be eaten.