19. Don’t eat storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes or bats.
20. “‘Don’t eat insects that have wings and walk on all four feet. They are also to be hated.
21. “‘But you may eat certain insects that have wings and walk on four feet. You may eat those that have legs with joints above their feet so they can jump.
22. These are the insects you may eat: all kinds of locusts, winged locusts, crickets and grasshoppers.
23. But all other insects that have wings and walk on four feet are hated.
24. Those insects will make you unclean. Anyone who touches the dead body of one of these insects will become unclean until evening.
25. If someone picks up one of these dead insects, he must wash his clothes. He will be unclean until evening.
26. “‘Some animals have split hooves. But the hooves are not completely divided. And some animals do not chew the cud. They are unclean for you. Anyone who touches the dead body of one of these animals will become unclean.
27. Other animals do not have hooves at all. They walk on their paws. These animals are unclean for you. Anyone who touches the dead body of one of these animals will become unclean. He will be unclean until evening.