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Leviticus 11:11-23 New Living Translation (NLT)

11. They will always be detestable to you. You must never eat their meat or even touch their dead bodies.

12. Any marine animal that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

13. “These are the birds that are detestable to you. You must never eat them: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

14. the kite, falcons of all kinds,

15. ravens of all kinds,

16. the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the seagull, hawks of all kinds,

17. the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

18. the barn owl, the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture,

19. the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.

20. “You must not eat winged insects that walk along the ground; they are detestable to you.

21. You may, however, eat winged insects that walk along the ground and have jointed legs so they can jump.

22. The insects you are permitted to eat include all kinds of locusts, bald locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.

23. All other winged insects that walk along the ground are detestable to you.

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