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31 These are unclean to you among all that ‘If a woman has conceived, and borne a male
creep. Whoever touches them when they are child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as
dead shall be unclean until evening. in the days of her customary impurity she shall
32 Anything on which any of them falls, when be unclean. And on the eighth day the flesh of
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they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is his foreskin shall be circumcised. She shall
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any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, then continue in the blood of her purification
whatever item it is, in which any work is done, thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hal-
it must be put in water. And it shall be unclean lowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until
until evening; then it shall be clean. Any the days of her purification are fulfilled.
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earthen vessel into which any of them falls 5 ‘But if she bears a female child, then she
you shall break; and whatever is in it shall be shall be unclean two weeks, as in her custom-
unclean: in such a vessel, any edible food ary impurity, and she shall continue in the
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upon which water falls becomes unclean, and blood of her purification sixty-six days.
any drink that may be drunk from it becomes 6 ‘When the days of her purification are ful-
unclean. And everything on which a part of filled, whether for a son or a daughter, she
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any such carcass falls shall be unclean; whether shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year
it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be bro- as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a
ken down; for they are unclean, and shall be turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the
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unclean to you. Nevertheless a spring or a tabernacle of meeting. Then he shall offer it
cistern, in which there is plenty of water, shall before the LORD, and make atonement for her.
be clean, but whatever touches any such car- And she shall be clean from the flow of her
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cass becomes unclean. And if a part of any blood. This is the law for her who has borne a
such carcass falls on any planting seed which male or a female.
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is to be sown, it remains clean. But if water is 8 ‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then
put on the seed, and if a part of any such car- she may bring two turtledoves or two young
cass falls on it, it becomes unclean to you. pigeons—one as a burnt offering and the
39 ‘And if any animal which you may eat dies, other as a sin offering. So the priest shall make
he who touches its carcass shall be unclean atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”
until evening. He who eats of its carcass shall Psalm 25:8–15
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wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
He also who carries its carcass shall wash his 8 Good and upright is the LORD;
clothes and be unclean until evening. Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.
41 ‘And every creeping thing that creeps on 9 The humble He guides in justice,
the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not And the humble He teaches His way.
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be eaten. Whatever crawls on its belly, what- 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy
ever goes on all fours, or whatever has many and truth,
feet among all creeping things that creep on To such as keep His covenant and His
the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are testimonies.
an abomination. You shall not make your- 11 For Your name’s sake, O LORD,
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selves abominable with any creeping thing that Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean 12 Who is the man that fears the LORD?
with them, lest you be defiled by them. For I Him shall He teach in the way He
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am the LORD your God. You shall therefore chooses.
consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; 13 He himself shall dwell in prosperity,
for I am holy. Neither shall you defile your- And his descendants shall inherit the
selves with any creeping thing that creeps on earth.
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the earth. For I am the LORD who brings you 14 The secret of the LORD is with those
up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. who fear Him,
You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. And He will show them His covenant.
46 ‘This is the law of the animals and the 15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD,
birds and every living creature that moves in For He shall pluck my feet out of the net.
the waters, and of every creature that creeps
on the earth, to distinguish between the Proverbs 10:1–3
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unclean and the clean, and between the ani- The proverbs of Solomon:
mal that may be eaten and the animal that may 10
not be eaten.’ ” A wise son makes a glad father,
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, But a foolish son is the grief
12 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: of his mother.
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