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The Book of Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verse 16

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Every raven after his kind;
King James Version
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
American Standard Version
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
New English Translation
the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,
World English Bible
the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
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And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
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And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
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And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
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Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
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[Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
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But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
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And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
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And whosoever beareth [ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
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[The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.