Leviticus 11:2-23 ▼

2 |Tell the Israelis that these are the living creatures that you may eat among the animals of the earth:

3 You may eat any animal that has divided hooves with cloven feet and that ruminates its cud,

4 except you are not to eat the following animals that have divided hooves or ruminate their cud: the camel (because it chews the cud but doesn't have divided hooves, it is to be unclean for you),

5 the rock badger (because it chews its cud but its hooves aren't divided, it is to be unclean for you),

6 the hare (because it chews its cud, but its hooves aren't divided, it is to be unclean for you),

7 and the pig (because it has divided hooves and is therefore cloven-footed, but it doesn't ruminate its cud, it is to be unclean for you).

8 You are not to eat their flesh or even touch their carcasses. They are to be unclean for you.|

9 |You may eat anything that lives in the water—that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.

10 But anything that doesn't have fins or scales—whether from the seas or the rivers—any of the swarming creatures and living creatures in the waters are detestable for you.

11 They are to remain detestable for you. You are not to eat of their meat and you are to detest their carcasses.

12 Anything that doesn't have fins or scales in the waters is a detestable thing for you.|

13 |These are detestable things for you among winged creatures that you are not to eat, because they are detestable for you: the eagle, vulture, osprey,

14 red kite, falcons of any kind,

15 every kind of raven,

16 ostrich, nighthawk, seagull, hawks of every kind,

17 owls, cormorants, the ibis,

18 water-hens, pelicans, carrion,

19 storks, herons of every kind, the hoopoe, bata,

20 and any winged insect that crawls on four legs is detestable for you.

21 However, you may eat winged creatures that crawl on four legs that extend over its head and by which it hops on the ground.

22 These creatures that you may eat include the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.

23 But any other winged insect that has four legs is detestable for you