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Leviticus 11:5-21 New English Translation (NET)

5. The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

6. The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

7. The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

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

9. “‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

10. But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

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

12. Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

13. “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

14. the kite, the buzzard of any kind,

15. every kind of crow,

16. the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,

17. the little owl, the cormorant, the screech owl,

18. the white owl, the scops owl, the osprey,

19. the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

20. “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

21. However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

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