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Leviticus defines clean land animals as those that both chew the cud and have a split hoof, and it lists key exceptions. For water creatures, it allows those with fins and scales and forbids the rest. It also lists prohibited birds and many “swarming” creatures (Leviticus 11:1–8; Leviticus 11:9–12).
1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
4Nevertheless these shall you not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn`t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
5The rabbit, because he chews the cud but doesn`t have a parted the hoof, he is unclean to you.
6The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn`t part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
7The pig, because he doesn`t part the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn`t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.
8Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
9These may you eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may you eat.
10All that don`t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
11and they shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall have in abomination.
12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
13These you shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
14and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
15every raven after its kind,
16and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind,
17and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
18and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture,
19and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
20All winged creeping things that go on all fours are an abomination to you.
21Yet these may you eat of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.
22Even these of them you may 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.
23But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you.