Leviticus Chapter 11

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus, chapter eleven, The Eternal One addressed Moses and Aaron again,
go talk to the Israelites and explain to them which
animals of the earth you may and may not eat.
You are allowed to eat any animals with split hooves
divided into two parts, or that chew the cud. But
from those animals with split hooves or that chew the cud,

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You are not allowed to eat camels, because they only
chew the cud and do not have split hooves. Camels
are impure to you. In the same way, the rock
badger choose the cud, but does not have split hoofs.
Therefore rock badgers are impure to you. Also, the hair
choose the cud, but it does not have split hooves,
therefore they are impure to you. The pig has split

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hoofs divided into two parts, but it does not chew
the cud. Therefore pigs are impure to you. Do not
eat their meat or touch their dead bodies, for they
are impure to you. You are certainly allowed to eat
these creatures of the water, any fish with fins and
scales that swim in the seas or rivers, but any
finless or scaleless fish that comes from the abundance of

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water life in the seas or rivers, and any other
creatures living in the water are detestable to you. Recognize
and treat them for what they are detestable. You are
not allowed to eat their meat, and their dead bodies
are repulsive to you. Any finless or scaleless fish or
animal or insect in the seas or rivers is detestable

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to you. Also, among the creatures of the air, there
are some you should detest as well. Do not eat
the eagle, the bearded vulture or the black vulture, the kite,
and all kinds of buzzards, any sort of crow, the ostrich,
the owl, the seagull, all kinds of hawks, the little owl,
the cormorant, the screech owl, the white owl, the pelican,

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the carrion, vulture, the stork, all kinds of herons and hoopy,
and the bat. Also, any insect that can fly and
move around on four legs is detestable, But you are
allowed to eat any flying four legged insect that has
joins above its feet for jumping. You may eat the
following insects locusts, destructive locusts, desert locusts and grasshoppers, but

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any other flying four legged insects are detestable. Also, you
will become impure until dusk if you touch the carcass
of any creature. A person who picks up any part
of its carcass must wash his clothes and remain impure
until dusk. All animals that do not chew, cut, or
have split hoofs that are not in two parts are
impure to you. Anyone who has contact with them becomes impure. Also,

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any four legged animals that walk on paws are impure
to you. Anyone who has contact with their carcasses will
be impure until dusk, and anyone who carries their carcass
is to wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk.
They are impure to you as well. These small creatures
that scamper about the earth are impure to you. Small rodents,

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great lizards, geckos, monitor lizards, other lizards, sand reptiles, and chameleons.
These small creatures of the earth are impure to you.
Anyone who touches their remains will be impure until dusk.
If one of the carcasses touches an object you intend
to use, such as a piece of wood, an article
of clothing, an animal hide, or a sack, then that
item is impure and should soak in water until dusk.

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After that it will be pure again. If one of
the carcasses falls into any container made of clay, the
substance within the container will become impure and you should
destroy the container. If any food in the container that
is ready to eat is touched by water, then the
food becomes impure. Any drink from a contaminated container will
become impure as well. If any part of a dead

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body touches something, say an oven or stove, then that
oven or stove must be destroyed. They are impure and
will always be impure to you. However, if a carcass
falls into a spring or a container accumulating water, the
water will be ritually pure because it is continually renewed,
but the person who pulls the carcass out of the
water will be real virtually impure. If any part of

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the dead body has contact with the seed that is
to be planted, then the seed remains ritually pure because
it is dry. But if the seed becomes wet and
any part of a dead body touches it, then the
seed is ritually impure. If a clean animal dies naturally,
whoever touches the carcass will be impure until dusk. And
if anyone eats some of its meat, then that person

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is to wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk.
Anyone who touches the dead body is to wash his
clothes and remain impure until dusk. Any swarming creature that
scurries along the ground is detestable to you and must
not be eaten. Do not consume any of them. Also,
do not eat any creature that moves on its belly,
walks on four legs, or has multiple pairs of feet,

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for they are detestable to you. Do not defile your
cells by having contact with any of the swarming creatures.
Do not become impure by having contact with any of them.
For I am the eternal One, your God. You are
to consecrate yourselves and be holy. For I am holy.
Do not cause your cells to become impure by having
in contact with any swarming creature that crawls along the ground.

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I am the eternal one who led you out of
the land of Egypt to be your god. Therefore you
are to be holy for I am holy. So this
is God's instruction concerning animals, birds, creatures that live in
the waters, and small creatures that move along the ground,
so that the people will be able to distinguish between
what animals are ritually acceptable and ritually unacceptable, and what

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is to be eaten and what is not to be eaten.