Bible verse
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 11.
8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
10 But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
11 They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
12 Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
15 any kind of raven,
16 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
KJV
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.
ASV
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.
ERV
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.
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