These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.

Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.