Daily Text and Bible Reading: Tuesday, February 4 [Press play below]

11.1 Then Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron:
11.2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘These are the living creatures of the earth that you may eat:
11.3 Every animal that has a split hoof and a cleft in its hooves and that chews the cud may be eaten.
11.4 “‘But you must not eat these animals that chew the cud or have a split hoof: the camel, which chews the cud but does not have a split hoof. It is unclean for you.
11.5 Also the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof. It is unclean for you.
11.6 Also the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof. It is unclean for you.
11.7 Also the pig, because it has a split hoof and a cleft in the hoof but does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you.
11.8 You must not eat any of their flesh or touch their dead body. They are unclean for you.
11.9 “‘This is what you may eat of everything in the waters: Anything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, it you may eat.
11.10 But anything in the seas and in the rivers that has no fins and scales, among all the swarming creatures and of every other living creature that is in the waters, it is a loathsome thing for you.
11.11 Yes, they should be loathsome to you, and you must not eat any of their flesh and you must loathe their carcasses.
11.12 Everything in the waters that has no fins and scales is a loathsome thing to you.
11.13 “‘These are the flying creatures that you are to loathe; they should not be eaten, for they are loathsome: the eagle, the osprey, the black vulture,
11.14 the red kite and every kind of black kite,
11.15 every kind of raven,
11.16 the ostrich, the owl, the gull, every kind of falcon,
11.17 the little owl, the cormorant, the long-eared owl,
11.18 the swan, the pelican, the vulture,
11.19 the stork, every kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
11.20 Every winged swarming creature that goes on all fours is something loathsome to you.
11.21 “‘Of the winged swarming creatures that move on all fours, you may eat only those that have jointed legs above their feet for leaping on the ground.
11.22 Of these you may eat: various kinds of migratory locusts, other edible locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.
11.23 All other winged swarming creatures with four legs are something loathsome to you.
11.24 By these you would make yourselves unclean. Everyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.
11.25 Anyone carrying any of their dead bodies should wash his garments; he will be unclean until the evening.
11.26 “‘Any animal that has a split hoof but does not have a cleft and does not chew its cud is unclean to you. Everyone touching them will be unclean.
11.27 Every living creature that walks on paws among the creatures that walk on all fours is unclean to you. Everyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.
11.28 The one who carries their dead bodies should wash his garments, and he will be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
11.29 “‘These are the swarming creatures of the earth that are unclean to you: the mole rat, the mouse, every kind of lizard,
11.30 the gecko, the large lizard, the newt, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
11.31 These swarming creatures are unclean to you. Everyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean until the evening.
11.32 “‘Now anything they fall on when they die will be unclean, whether a wooden utensil, a garment, a skin, or a piece of sackcloth. Any utensil that is used should be immersed in water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.
11.33 If they fall into an earthenware vessel, you are to smash it, and anything that was in it will be unclean.
11.34 Any kind of food that comes in contact with water from such a vessel will be unclean, and any drinkable liquid in such a vessel will be unclean.
11.35 Anything their dead bodies fall on will be unclean. Whether oven or small stove, it should be broken into pieces. They are unclean, and they will remain unclean to you.
11.36 Only a spring and a cistern for storing water will continue clean, but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.
11.37 If their dead bodies fall on a plant seed that is to be sown, it is clean.
11.38 But if water is put on a seed and part of their dead body falls on it, the seed is unclean to you.
11.39 “‘Now if an animal that you use for food dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until the evening.
11.40 Whoever eats any of its dead body should wash his garments, and he will be unclean until the evening. Whoever carries off its dead body should wash his garments, and he will be unclean until the evening.
11.41 Every swarming creature of the earth is something loathsome. It must not be eaten.
11.42 You must not eat any creature that crawls on its belly, any creature that goes on all fours, or any of earth’s swarming creatures with a great number of legs, for they are something loathsome.
11.43 Do not make yourselves loathsome by means of any swarming creature, and do not defile yourselves and become unclean by them.
11.44 For I am Jehovah your God, and you must sanctify yourselves and become holy, because I am holy. So you must not make yourselves unclean by any swarming creature that moves on the earth.
11.45 For I am Jehovah, who is leading you up out of the land of Egypt to prove myself God to you, and you must be holy, because I am holy.
11.46 “‘This is the law about the animals, the flying creatures, every living creature that moves through the waters, and concerning every creature that swarms on the earth,
11.47 in order to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.’”
12.1 Jehovah went on to say to Moses:
12.2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male, she will be unclean for seven days, just as she is in the days of the impurity when she is menstruating.
12.3 On the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin will be circumcised.
12.4 She will continue cleansing herself from the blood for the next 33 days. She should not touch any holy thing, and she should not come into the holy place until she fulfills the days of her purification.
12.5 “‘If she should give birth to a female, she will then be unclean for 14 days, just as she would be during her menstruation. She will continue cleansing herself from the blood for the next 66 days.
12.6 When the days of her purification for a son or a daughter are completed, she will bring a young ram in its first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.
12.7 He will present it before Jehovah and make atonement for her, and she will be clean from her flow of blood. This is the law about the woman who gives birth to either a male or a female.
12.8 But if she cannot afford a sheep, she must then take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
13.1 Jehovah continued to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying:
13.2 “If a man develops on his skin a swelling, a scab, or a blotch and it could become the disease of leprosy on his skin, he must then be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
13.3 The priest will examine the infection on his skin. When the hair in the infection has turned white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than the skin, it is the disease of leprosy. The priest will examine it and declare him unclean.
13.4 But if the blotch on his skin is white and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and the hair has not turned white, the priest will then quarantine the infected person for seven days.
13.5 The priest will then examine him on the seventh day, and if it appears that the infection has stopped and has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine him for another seven days.
13.6 “The priest should examine him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest will declare him clean; it was only a scab. The man will then wash his garments and be clean.
13.7 But if the scab has definitely spread on the skin after he appears before the priest to establish his purification, he will then appear again before the priest.
13.8 The priest will examine it, and if the scab has spread in the skin, the priest will then declare him unclean. It is leprosy.
13.9 “If the disease of leprosy develops in a man, he must then be brought to the priest,
13.10 and the priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin and it has turned the hair white and there is an open sore in the swelling,
13.11 it is chronic leprosy on his skin, and the priest will declare him unclean. He should not quarantine him, for he is unclean.
13.12 Now if the leprosy breaks out all over the skin and the leprosy covers the person with the disease from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
13.13 and the priest has examined him and sees that the leprosy has covered all his skin, he will then declare the infected person clean. All of it has turned white, and he is clean.
13.14 But whenever an open sore appears in it, he will be unclean.
13.15 When the priest sees the open sore, he will declare him unclean. The open sore is unclean. It is leprosy.
13.16 But if the open sore again turns white, he will then come to the priest.
13.17 The priest will examine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest will then declare the infected person clean. He is clean.
13.18 “If a person develops a boil on his skin and it heals,
13.19 but in the place of the boil a white swelling or a reddish-white blotch has developed, he must then show himself to the priest.
13.20 The priest will examine it, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest will then declare him unclean. It is the disease of leprosy that has broken out in the boil.
13.21 But if the priest examines it and sees that there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and appears faded, the priest will then quarantine him for seven days.
13.22 And if it has clearly spread on the skin, the priest will then declare him unclean. It is a disease.
13.23 But if the blotch stays in one place and has not spread, it is only the inflammation from the boil, and the priest will declare him clean.
13.24 “Or if someone has a scar from the fire and the raw flesh of the scar becomes a reddish-white blotch or a white one,
13.25 the priest will then examine it. If the hair in the blotch has turned white and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy that has broken out in the scar, and the priest will declare him unclean. It is the disease of leprosy.
13.26 But if the priest examines it and sees that there is no white hair in the blotch and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, the priest will then quarantine him for seven days.
13.27 The priest will examine him on the seventh day, and if it has clearly spread on the skin, the priest will then declare him unclean. It is the disease of leprosy.
13.28 But if the blotch stays in one place and has not spread over the skin and it is faded, it is only a swelling of the scar, and the priest will declare him clean, because it is an inflammation of the scar.
13.29 “When a man or a woman develops an infection on the head or on the chin,
13.30 the priest will then examine the infection. If it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair is yellow and thin, the priest will then declare such one unclean; it is an infection of the scalp or the beard. It is leprosy of the head or of the chin.
13.31 But if the priest sees that the infection does not appear to be deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest should quarantine the infected person for seven days.
13.32 The priest will examine the infection on the seventh day, and if the infected area has not spread and no yellow hair has developed in it and the appearance of the infected area is not deeper than the skin,
13.33 the person should have himself shaved, but he will not have the infected area shaved. Then the priest will quarantine the infected person for seven days.
13.34 “The priest will again examine the infected area on the seventh day, and if the infection of the scalp and beard has not spread on the skin and it does not appear deeper than the skin, the priest must then declare him clean, and he should wash his garments and be clean.
13.35 But if the infection clearly spreads on the skin after his purification,
13.36 the priest will examine him, and if the infection has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; that person is unclean.
13.37 But if the examination shows that the infection has not spread and black hair has grown on it, the infection has been healed. He is clean, and the priest will declare him clean.
13.38 “If a man or a woman develops blotches on the skin and the blotches are white,
13.39 the priest will examine them. If the skin blotches are faded white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. That person is clean.
13.40 “If a man loses the hair of his head and becomes bald, he is clean.
13.41 If he loses the hair on the front of his head and becomes bald there, he is clean.
13.42 But if a reddish-white sore develops on the bald part of his scalp or on his forehead, it is leprosy breaking out on his scalp or on his forehead.
13.43 The priest will examine him, and if the swelling from the infection is reddish-white on the bald spot on top of his head or on his forehead and it looks like leprosy on his skin,
13.44 he is a leper. He is unclean, and the priest should declare him unclean because of the disease on his head.
13.45 As for the leper who has the disease, his garments should be torn and his head should be left ungroomed and he should cover over his mustache and call out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
13.46 He will be unclean the whole time that he has the disease. Since he is unclean, he should live in isolation. His dwelling place will be outside the camp.
13.47 “If the disease of leprosy contaminates a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,
13.48 either in the warp or in the woof of the linen or of the wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,
13.49 and the yellowish-green or reddish stain from the disease contaminates the garment, a skin, the warp, the woof, or any article of skin, it is a contamination from leprosy, and it should be shown to the priest.
13.50 The priest will examine the disease, and he must quarantine the disease for seven days.
13.51 When he examines the disease on the seventh day and sees that it has spread in the garment, in the warp, in the woof, or in the skin (regardless of what the skin is used for), the disease is malignant leprosy, and it is unclean.
13.52 He should burn the garment or the warp or the woof in the wool or in the linen or any article of skin in which the disease has developed, for it is malignant leprosy. It should be burned in the fire.
13.53 “But if the priest examines it and the disease has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of skin,
13.54 the priest will then command that they should wash the contaminated item, and he will quarantine it for another seven days.
13.55 The priest will then examine the contaminated item after it has been thoroughly washed. If the appearance of the contamination has not changed, even if the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You should burn it in the fire because it has been eaten away, either from its underside or from its outside.
13.56 “But if the priest has examined it and the contaminated part is faded after it has been thoroughly washed, he will then tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.
13.57 However, if it still appears in another part of the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of skin, it is spreading, and you should burn any contaminated item in the fire.
13.58 But when the contamination disappears from the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of skin that you wash, it should then be washed a second time, and it will be clean.
13.59 “This is the law of the disease of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of skin, for declaring it clean or unclean.”