Clean and Unclean Food
26 All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that don’t chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean.
27 All four-legged animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.
28 Those who carry the dead body of any of these animals must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.
29 “The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you—moles, mice, and all types of lizards:
30 geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons.
31 Among all the swarming creatures that move on the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.
32 When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. Then it will be clean again.
33 “If any of these creatures falls into a piece of pottery, break the pottery because everything in it is unclean.
34 If water from that pottery touches any food, the food is unclean. Any liquid that you drink from that pottery is unclean.
35 Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
36 However, a spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean.
37 If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean.
38 But if water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you.
39 “When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
40 Those who eat any of its dead body must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. Those who carry its dead body away will wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening.
41 “Any creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting and must not be eaten.
42 Don’t eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting.
43 Don’t become disgusting by eating anything that swarms on the ground. Never allow yourselves to become unclean because of them.
44 “Here is the reason: I am the Lord your God. You must live holy lives. Be holy because I am holy. Never become unclean by touching anything that swarms or crawls on the ground.
45 Here is the reason again: I am the Lord. I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. Be holy because I am holy.
46 “These are the instructions about animals, birds, and every living creature that swims in the water and every creature that swarms on the ground.
47 These instructions help you distinguish between clean and unclean, the animals you may eat and those you may not eat.”
Luke 15:11-32
The Parable of the Lost Son
11 Then Jesus said, “A man had two sons.
12 The younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the property.’ So the father divided his property between his two sons.
13 “After a few days, the younger son gathered his possessions and left for a country far away from home. There he wasted everything he had on a wild lifestyle.
14 He had nothing left when a severe famine spread throughout that country. He had nothing to live on.
15 So he got a job from someone in that country and was sent to feed pigs in the fields.
16 No one in the country would give him any food, and he was so hungry that he would have eaten what the pigs were eating.
17 “Finally, he came to his senses. He said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more food than they can eat, while I’m starving to death here?
18 I’ll go at once to my father, and I’ll say to him, “Father, I’ve sinned against heaven and you.
19 I don’t deserve to be called your son anymore. Make me one of your hired men.”’
20 “So he went at once to his father. While he was still at a distance, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son, put his arms around him, and kissed him.
21 Then his son said to him, ‘Father, I’ve sinned against heaven and you. I don’t deserve to be called your son anymore.’
22 “The father said to his servants, ‘Hurry! Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s celebrate with a feast.
24 My son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost but has been found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
25 “His older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 He called to one of the servants and asked what was happening.
27 “The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come home. So your father has killed the fattened calf to celebrate your brother’s safe return.’
28 “Then the older son became angry and wouldn’t go into the house. His father came out and begged him to come in.
29 But he answered his father, ‘All these years I’ve worked like a slave for you. I’ve never disobeyed one of your commands. Yet, you’ve never given me so much as a little goat for a celebration with my friends.
30 But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came home, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
31 “His father said to him, ‘My child, you’re always with me. Everything I have is yours.
32 But we have something to celebrate, something to be happy about. This brother of yours was dead but has come back to life. He was lost but has been found.’”
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