Leviticus 11:2-23 ▼

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the beast which you eat out of all the beasts which [are] on the earth:

3 any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

4 Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof: the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not dividing—it [is] unclean to you;

5 and the hyrax, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not divided—it [is] unclean to you;

6 and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof has not divided—it [is] unclean to you;

7 and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it does not bring up the cud—it [is] unclean to you.

8 You do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass—they [are] unclean to you.

9 This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them you eat;

10 and anything that does not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which lives, which [is] in the waters—they [are] an abomination to you;

11 indeed, they are an abomination to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you detest their carcass.

12 Anything that does not have fins and scales in the waters—it [is] an abomination to you.

13 And these you detest of the bird—they are not eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,

15 every raven after its kind,

16 and the ostrich, and the nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,

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

18 and the waterhen, and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture,

19 and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

20 Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four [legs]—it [is] an abomination to you.

21 Only, this you eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which has legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;

22 these of them you eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;

23 and every teeming thing which is flying, which has four feet—it [is] an abomination to you.