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Leviticus - ch 11 v 1 - 20
- And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
- Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.
- You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.
- But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.
- And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.
- And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.
- And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.
- Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.
- These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.
- All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
- They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.
- Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.
- And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
- And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;
- Every raven, and birds of that sort;
- And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;
- And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl;
- And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture;
- The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
- Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;
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