English Standard Version

Leviticus 11:8-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

9. “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

10. But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.

11. You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.

12. Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

13. “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

14. the kite, the falcon of any kind,

15. every raven of any kind,

16. the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,

17. the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,

18. the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,

19. the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

20. “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.