8. Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.
9. “Here are the kinds of creatures that live in the water which you may eat—anything in the seas and streams that has fins and scales.
10. However, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting.
11. They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies disgusting.
12. Every creature in the water without fins or scales is disgusting to you.
13. “Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,
14. kites, all types of buzzards,
15. all types of crows,
16. ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,
17. little owls, cormorants, great owls,
18. barn owls, pelicans, ospreys,
19. storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.
20. “Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.
21. However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground.
22. You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.
23. Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.