Avoid the Unclean

13 ‘These, moreover, (A)you shall detest among the birds; they are [a]abhorrent, not to be eaten: the [b]eagle and the vulture and the [c]buzzard,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:13 Lit a detestable thing
  2. Leviticus 11:13 Or vulture
  3. Leviticus 11:13 Or black vulture

19 and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

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17 Where the (A)birds build their nests,
And the (B)stork, whose home is the [a]fir trees.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:17 Or cypress

“Even the stork in the sky
(A)Knows her seasons;
And the (B)turtledove and the swift and the thrush
Observe the time of their [a]migration;
But (C)My people do not know
The ordinance of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming