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4 Here are the [kinds of] animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,
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These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 deer, gazelles, fallow deer, wild goats, mountain goats, antelope, and 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 You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud.
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You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
7 But some animals chew their cud, while others have completely divided hoofs. You may not eat these [kinds of] animals. They include camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. (Although they chew their cud, they don't have divided hoofs. They are unclean for you.)
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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 Also, you may not eat pigs. (Although their hoofs are divided, they don't chew their cud.) Never eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.
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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 Here's what you may eat of every creature that lives in the water: You may eat any creature that has fins and scales.
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Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.
10 But never eat anything that doesn't have fins and scales. It is 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 You may eat any clean bird.
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You may eat any clean bird.
12 But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,
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But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
13 buzzards, all types of kites,
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the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,
14 all types of crows,
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any kind of raven,
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