1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2. “Tell the Israelites: These are the animals you can eat:
3. If an animal has hooves that are split into two parts, and if that animal also chews the cud, then you may eat the meat from that animal.
10-11. But you must not eat anything that lives in the sea or in a river and does not have fins and scales. Just the thought of eating such a creature should make you sick. This will never change. So don’t ever eat meat from anything like that. Don’t even touch its dead body!
26-27. “Some animals have split hooves, but the hooves don’t make exactly two parts. Some animals don’t chew the cud. Some animals don’t have hooves—they walk on their paws. All these animals are unclean for you. If you touch them, you will become unclean until evening.