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Clean and Unclean Land Animals

11 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ‘Tell the Israelites: You may eat(A) all these kinds of land animals.(B) You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud. But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

camels,(C) though they chew the cud,

do not have divided hooves – they are unclean for you;

hyraxes,(D) though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves – they are unclean for you;

hares, though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves – they are unclean for you;

pigs, though they have divided hooves,

do not chew the cud – they are unclean for you.

Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses – they are unclean for you.(E)

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