Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 11:14-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind,

15. And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.

16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis,

18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion,

19. The heron, and the charadrion according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.

21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,

22. That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.

23. But of dying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you:

24. And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening: