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!
12. It is a sickening thought for you to touch anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.
13. “You must also treat some birds as things that are wrong to eat. Stay away from them. It is a sickening thought for you to eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,
14. kites, all kinds of falcons,
15. all kinds of black birds,
16. ostriches, nighthawks, sea gulls, all kinds of hawks,
17. owls, cormorants, great owls,
18. water hens, pelicans, carrion vultures,
19. storks, all kinds of herons, hoopoes, and bats.
20. “Don’t eat insects that have wings and crawl. Even the thought of eating them should make you sick!
21. But you may eat insects if they have legs with joints above their feet so that they can jump.
22. You may also eat all kinds of locusts, all kinds of winged locusts, all kinds of crickets, and all kinds of grasshoppers.
23. “But stay away from all the other insects that have wings and crawl.
24. They will make you unclean. If you touch the dead bodies of these insects, you will become unclean until evening.
25. If you pick up one of these dead insects, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.
26-27. “Some animals have split hooves, but the hooves don’t make exactly two parts. Some animals don’t chew the cud. Some animals don’t have hooves—they walk on their paws. All these animals are unclean for you. If you touch them, you will become unclean until evening.
28. If you pick up the dead bodies of these unclean animals, you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.