1. The Lord spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
2. "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.
3. Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
4. Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you.
5. Likewise, the shaphan, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;
6. the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;
7. and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you.
8. You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9. 'These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
10. But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,
11. and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.
12. Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
13. 'These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
14. and the kite and the falcon in its kind,