Bible Reading Plan – Day 31

₁The Lord gave Moses and Aaron the following regulations ₂for the people of Israel. You may eat any land animal ₃that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud, _4-6but you must not eat camels, rock-badgers, or rabbits. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud, but do not have divided hoofs. ₇Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs, but do not chew the cud. ₈Do not eat these animals or even touch their dead bodies; they are unclean.

₉You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales, ₁₀but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales must not be eaten. ₁₁Such creatures must be considered unclean. You must not eat them or even touch their dead bodies. ₁₂You must not eat anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.

_13-19You must not eat any of the following birds: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; or bats.

₂₀All winged insects are unclean, ₂₁except those that hop. ₂₂You may eat locusts, crickets, or grasshoppers. ₂₃But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.

_24-28Whoever touches the dead bodies of the following animals will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. Whoever carries their dead bodies must wash his clothes, but he will still be unclean until evening.

_29-30Moles, rats, mice, and lizards must be considered unclean. ₃₁Whoever touches them or their dead bodies will be unclean until evening. ₃₂And if their dead bodies fall on anything, it will be unclean. This applies to any article of wood, cloth, leather, or sacking, no matter what it is used for. It shall be dipped in water, but it will remain unclean until evening. ₃₃And if their bodies fall into a clay pot, everything that is in it shall be unclean, and you must break the pot. ₃₄Any food which could normally be eaten, but on which water from such a pot has been poured, will be unclean, and anything drinkable in such a pot is unclean. ₃₅Anything on which the dead bodies fall is unclean; a clay stove or oven shall be broken, ₃₆but a spring or a cistern remains clean, although anything else that touches their dead bodies is unclean. ₃₇If one of them falls on seed that is going to be sown, the seed remains clean. ₃₈But if the seed is soaking in water and one of them falls on it, the seed is unclean.

₃₉If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening. ₄₀And if anyone eats any part of the animal, he must wash his clothes, but he will still be unclean until evening; anyone who carries the dead body must wash his clothes, but he will still be unclean until evening.

₄₁You must not eat any of the small animals that move on the ground, ₄₂whether they crawl, or walk on four legs, or have many legs. ₄₃Do not make yourselves unclean by eating any of these. ₄₄I am the LORD your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. ₄₅I am the LORD who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.

₄₆This, then, is the law about animals and birds, about everything that lives in the water, and everything that moves on the ground. ₄₇You must be careful to distinguish between what is ritually clean and unclean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.

₁The LORD gave Moses the following regulations ₂for the people of Israel. For seven days after a woman gives birth to a son, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period. ₃On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised. ₄Then it will be 33 more days before she is ritually clean from her loss of blood; she must not touch anything that is holy or enter the sacred Tent until the time of her purification is completed.

₅For fourteen days after a woman gives birth to a daughter, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period. Then it will be 66 more days before she is ritually clean from her loss of blood.

₆When the time of her purification is completed, whether for a son or daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. ₇The priest shall present her offering to the Lord and perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean. This, then, is what a woman must do after giving birth.

₈If the woman cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two doves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering, and the priest shall perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean.

₁The LORD gave Moses and Aaron these regulations. ₂If anyone has a sore on his skin or a boil or an inflammation which could develop into a dreaded skin disease, he shall be brought to the Aaronite priest. ₃The priest shall examine the sore, and if the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest shall pronounce the person unclean. ₄But if the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin round it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest shall isolate the person for seven days. ₅The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he shall isolate him for another seven days. ₆The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread, he shall pronounce him ritually clean; it is only a sore. The person shall wash his clothes and be ritually clean. ₇But if the sore spreads after the priest has examined him and pronounced him clean, he must appear before the priest again. ₈The priest will examine him again, and if it has spread, he shall pronounce him unclean; it is a dreaded skin disease.

₉If anyone has a dreaded skin disease, he shall be brought to the priest, ₁₀who will examine him. If there is a white sore on his skin which turns the hairs white and is full of pus, ₁₁it is a chronic skin disease. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; there is no need to isolate him, because he is obviously unclean. ₁₂If the skin disease spreads and covers the person from head to foot, ₁₃the priest shall examine him again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he shall pronounce the person ritually clean. If his whole skin has turned white, he is ritually clean. ₁₄But from the moment an open sore appears, he is unclean. ₁₅The priest shall examine him again, and if he sees an open sore, he shall pronounce him unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease, and the person is unclean. ₁₆But when the sore heals and becomes white again, the person shall go to the priest, ₁₇who will examine him again. If the sore has turned white, he is ritually clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

₁₈If anyone has a boil that has healed ₁₉and if afterwards a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, he shall go to the priest. ₂₀The priest shall examine him, and if the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he shall pronounce him unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. ₂₁But if the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in colour, the priest shall isolate him for seven days. ₂₂If the spot spreads, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he is diseased. ₂₃But if it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him ritually clean.

₂₄In the case of a person who has been burnt, if the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, ₂₅the priest shall examine him. If the hairs in the spot have turned white and it appears deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. ₂₆But if the hairs in it have not turned white and it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in colour, the priest shall isolate him for seven days. ₂₇The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if it is spreading, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. ₂₈But if the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in colour, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest shall pronounce him ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn.

₂₉When a man or a woman has a sore on the head or the chin, ₃₀the priest shall examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and he shall pronounce the person unclean. ₃₁If, when the priest examines him, the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he shall isolate him for seven days. ₃₂The priest shall examine the sore again on the seventh day, and if it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, ₃₃the person shall shave the head except the area round the sore. The priest shall then isolate him for another seven days. ₃₄On the seventh day the priest shall again examine the sore, and if it has not spread and does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, he shall pronounce him ritually clean. The person shall wash his clothes, and he will be clean. ₃₅But if the sore spreads after he has been pronounced clean, ₃₆the priest shall examine him again. If the sore has spread, he need not look for yellowish hairs; the person is obviously unclean. ₃₇But if in the priest's opinion the sore has not spread and healthy hairs are growing in it, the sore has healed, and the priest shall pronounce him ritually clean.

₃₈When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin, ₃₉the priest shall examine that person. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin; the person is ritually clean.

_40-41If a man loses his hair at the back or the front of his head, this does not make him unclean. ₄₂But if a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. ₄₃The priest shall examine him, and if there is a reddish-white sore, ₄₄the priest shall pronounce him unclean, because of the dreaded skin disease on his head.

₄₅A person who has a dreaded skin disease must wear torn clothes, leave his hair uncombed, cover the lower part of his face, and call out, “Unclean, unclean!” ₄₆He remains unclean as long as he has the disease, and he must live outside the camp, away from others.

₄₇When there is mildew on clothing, whether wool or linen, ₄₈or on any piece of linen or wool cloth or on leather or anything made of leather, ₄₉if it is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. ₅₀The priest shall examine it and put the object away for seven days. ₅₁He shall examine it again on the seventh day, and if the mildew has spread, the object is unclean. ₅₂The priest shall burn it, because it is a spreading mildew which must be destroyed by fire.

₅₃But if, when he examines it, the priest finds that the mildew has not spread on the object, ₅₄he shall order it to be washed and put away for another seven days. ₅₅Then he shall examine it, and if the mildew has not changed colour, even though it has not spread, it is still unclean; you must burn the object, whether the rot is on the front or the back. ₅₆But if, when the priest examines it again, the mildew has faded, he shall tear it out of the clothing or leather. ₅₇Then, if the mildew reappears, it is spreading again, and the owner shall burn the object. ₅₈If he washes the object and the spot disappears, he shall wash it again, and it will be ritually clean.

₅₉This, then, is the law about mildew on clothing, whether it is wool or linen, or on linen or wool cloth or on anything made of leather; this is how the decision is made as to whether it is ritually clean or unclean.