8. Don’t eat the meat from these animals. Don’t even touch their dead bodies! They are unclean for you.
9. “You may eat everything that lives in the sea or in a river that has fins and scales.
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,