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The Book of Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verse 19

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And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
King James Version
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
American Standard Version
and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
New English Translation
the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
World English Bible
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, 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.
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And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
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And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they [are] unclean unto you.
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These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,