Leviticus 11:8-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ Don’t eat the meat from these animals. Don’t even touch their dead bodies! They are unclean for you.

Rules About Sea Food

⁹ “You may eat everything that lives in the sea or in a river that has fins and scales. ^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!