Avoid the Unclean

13 ‘Moreover, these (A)you shall detest among the birds; they are detestable, not to be eaten: the [a]eagle, the vulture, and the [b]buzzard,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:13 Or vulture
  2. Leviticus 11:13 Or black vulture

13 “‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle,[a] the vulture, the black vulture,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:13 The precise identification of some of the birds, insects and animals in this chapter is uncertain.

19 the stork, the heron in its kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.

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19 the stork,(A) any kind(B) of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.(C)

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17 Where the (A)birds build their nests,
And the (B)stork, whose home is the juniper trees.

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17 There the birds(A) make their nests;
    the stork has its home in the junipers.

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Even the stork in the sky
(A)Knows her seasons;
And the (B)turtledove, the swallow, and the crane
Keep to the time of their [a]migration;
But (C)My people do not know
The judgment of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming

Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know(A)
    the requirements of the Lord.

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