011:014 and the red kite, any kind of black kite,
011:015 any kind of raven,
011:016 the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
011:017 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
011:018 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
011:019 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
011:020 "'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an
abomination to you.
011:021 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things
that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet,
with which to hop on the earth.
011:022 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid,
any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
011:023 But all winged creeping things which have four feet,
are an abomination to you.
011:024 "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass
of them shall be unclean until the evening.
011:025 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the evening.
011:026 "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed,
nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches
them shall be unclean.
011:027 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours,
they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall
be unclean until the evening.
011:028 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
011:029 "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping
things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat,
any kind of great lizard,
011:030 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink,
and the chameleon.
011:031 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep.
Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean
until the evening.
011:032 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean;
whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack,
whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must
be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening;
then it will be clean.
011:033 Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is
in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
011:034 All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes,
shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every
such vessel shall be unclean.
011:035 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean;
whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces:
they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
011:036 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered
shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass
shall be unclean.
011:037 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is
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