Clean and Unclean Food

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Chapter 11 defines "clean" and "unclean" food. Notice what was clean:

1. Animals with a cloven hoof, accept the camel, badger, hare, and swine.
2. All that is in the water that has fins and scales.

Notice what was unclean:

1. The eagle, vulture, osprey, kite, falcon, raven, ostrich, nighthawk, sea gull, hawk, owl, bat, hoopoe, cormorant, ibis, water hen, pelican, carrion vulture, stork and heron.
2. No insects accept the locust, bald locust, cricket and the grasshopper.
3. If you even touch one of these creatures that cannot be eaten, you are unclean. You must wash and remain unclean until evening. (After 6:00 which began a new day)
4. Swarming things (adjective not clear) like the mouse and the weasel are unclean and anything that touches them is unclean except a spring of water or cistern.

These laws applied to all creatures.

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