11:3. Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat. Hoof divided, and cheweth the cud.... The dividing of the hoof and chewing of the cud, signify discretion between good and evil, and meditating on the law of God; and where either of these is wanting a man is unclean. In like manner fishes were reputed unclean that had not fins and scales: that is, souls that did not raise themselves up by prayer and cover themselves with the scales of virtue. 11:4. But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean. 11:5. The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean. The cherogrillus.... Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the hedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common in Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We choose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that follow (which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the Greek or Latin names. 11:6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof. 11:7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud. 11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you. 11:9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat. 11:10. But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you, 11:11. And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid. 11:12. All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean. 11:13. Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey. The griffon.... Not the monster which the painter represent, which hath no being upon earth; but a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the common. 11:14. And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind. 11:15. And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness. 11:16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind. 11:17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis. 11:18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion. 11:19. The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat. 11:20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you. 11:21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth, 11:22. That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.