How we cite our quotes: (Chapter:Verse)
Quote #4
This is the law pertaining to land animal and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth, to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten. (NRSV 11:46-47)
This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. (KJV 11:46-47)
Here's a key verse about kosher law to whet your appetite, hungry Shmoopers. While the technicalities can sometimes be hard to swallow, God sums it all up with a reminding that the drawing lines is what his laws are all about.
Quote #5
The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, "Unclean, unclean." He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp. (NRSV 13:45-46)
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. (KJV 13:45-46)
Living in time before medicated skin crèmes, Leviticus offers no relief from the itching and scaling that cause the heartbreak of psoriasis. Instead, the priests turn you into a version of Pigpen without self-esteem.
Quote #6
When a woman has a discharge of blood that is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. Everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean. (NRSV 15:19-20)
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. (KJV 15:19-20)
Just like Mr. Garrison, many religions don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die (source).