Leviticus 10–20

Chapter 10

And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.

²And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.

³And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.

⁴And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from before the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.

⁵And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.

⁶And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.

⁷But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise you shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did all things according to the precept of Moses.

⁸The Lord also said to Aaron:

⁹You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

¹⁰And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

¹¹And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

¹²And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies.

¹³And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.

¹⁴The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

¹⁵Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.

¹⁶While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:

¹⁷Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.

¹⁸Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried within the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me?

¹⁹Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?

²⁰Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.

Chapter 11

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

²Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth.

³Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.

⁴But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean.

⁵The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean.

⁶The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.

⁷And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

⁸The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

⁹These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.

¹⁰But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

¹¹And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.

¹²All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

¹³Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.

¹⁴And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.

¹⁵And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.

¹⁶The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

¹⁷The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.

¹⁸And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

¹⁹The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

²⁰Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.

²¹But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,

²²That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.

²³But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you.

²⁴And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:

²⁵And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.

²⁶Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.

²⁷That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.

²⁸And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.

²⁹These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that move upon the earth. The weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind:

³⁰The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the lizard, and the mole.

³¹All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.

³²And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done. They shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so afterwards shall be clean.

³³But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled: and therefore is to be broken.

³⁴Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean.

³⁵And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

³⁶But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.

³⁷If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.

³⁸But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.

³⁹If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁰And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴¹All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable: neither shall it be taken for meat.

⁴²Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

⁴³Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.

⁴⁵For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.

⁴⁶You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth:

⁴⁷That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.

Chapter 12

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

³And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:

⁴But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.

⁵But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.

⁶And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.

⁷Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth a man child or a maid child.

⁸And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for…