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4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
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These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.
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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.
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You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
7 But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.
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However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.
8 And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.
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The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9 And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.
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Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.
10 But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
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But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
11 All clean birds may be used for food.
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You may eat any clean bird.
12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
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But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
13 The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;
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the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,
14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;
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any kind of raven,
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