Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.

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.

He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather – whatever the article into which the leather was made – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

“You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

“Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

Aaron must then present the goat which has been designated by lot for the Lord, and he is to make it a sin offering,

If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord.

“‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

“‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,