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Clean and Unclean Animals

11 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the Israelites,[b] saying, ‘These are the animals that you may eat from all the animals that are on the land:

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  1. Leviticus 11:1 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 11:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

Clean and Unclean Food(A)

11 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Say to the Israelites: ‘Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat:(B)

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“‘These[a] you may eat from all that are in the water: any in the water that has a fin and scales, whether in the seas or[b] in the streams—such[c] you may eat.

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  1. Leviticus 11:9 By context; Hebrew “This”
  2. Leviticus 11:9 Or “and”
  3. Leviticus 11:9 Hebrew “them”

“‘Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales.

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13 “‘And these you must detest from the birds; they must not be eaten—they are detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle, 14 and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind, 15 every crow according to its kind, 16 and the ostrich[a] and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind, 17 and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, 18 and the barn owl and the desert owl and the carrion vulture, 19 and the stork, the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.

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  1. Leviticus 11:16 Literally “the daughter of the ostrich”

13 “‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle,[a] the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind(A) of black kite, 15 any kind of raven,(B) 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl,(C) the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork,(D) any kind(E) of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.(F)

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  1. Leviticus 11:13 The precise identification of some of the birds, insects and animals in this chapter is uncertain.