When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ¹  they are unclean to you.

Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

“‘By these ¹  you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, ¹  it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

Before I restore them ¹  I will punish them in full ²  for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own ³  with their detestable idols.” ⁴ 

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ¹  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ²  I will abhor you. ³ 

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹  passed between the animal parts. ² 

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ¹  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean ¹  to you.

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses ¹  are, there it is.”

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal. ¹ 

This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

In this place I will thwart ¹  the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword ²  at the hands of their enemies. ³  I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.