Leviticus 11:2-23 ▼

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is the living thing that you? may eat from among all the beasts that are on the earth:

3 Every one dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, and bringing up the cud among the beasts, it you? may eat.

4 Nevertheless this you? shall not eat from among the ones bringing up the cud, and from among the ones dividing the hoof: The camel, though it is bringing up the cud, but the hoof it is not dividing—it is unclean to you?.

5 And the rock badger, though it is bringing up the cud, but the hoof it is not dividing—it is unclean to you?.

6 And the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, but the hoof it has not divided—it is unclean to you?.

7 And the swine, though it is dividing the hoof and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, but the cud it does not chew—it is unclean to you?.

8 From their flesh you? shall not eat, and their carcass you? shall not touch—they are unclean to you?.

9 This you? shall eat from all that are in the waters: Everything that has fin and scale in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you? shall eat.

10 And everything that does not have fin and scale in the seas and in the rivers, from every swarming thing of the waters, and from every living creature that is in the waters—they are an abomination to you?.

11 And an abomination they shall be to you?; from their flesh you? shall not eat, and their carcasses you? shall detest.

12 All that does not have fin and scale in the waters—it is an abomination to you?.

13 And these you? shall detest from the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: The eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the black vulture,

14 and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind,

15 every raven according to its kind,

16 and the daughter of the ostrich, and the screech owl, and the gull, and the hawk according to its kind,

17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

18 and the white owl, and the desert owl, and the osprey,

19 and the stork, the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

20 Every swarming thing that flies, the one walking on four legs, it is an abomination to you?.

21 Only this you? may eat from every swarming thing that flies, the one walking on four legs: That which has jointed legs above its feet to leap with them on the earth.

22 These from them you? may eat: The locust according to its kind, and the katydid according to its kind, and the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

23 And every swarming thing that flies that has four feet, it is an abomination to you?.