Bible in Basic English
"They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you."
— Leviticus 11:11, Bible in Basic English
“They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.”
“and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in abomination. ”
“and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.”
“Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.”
“And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.”
“They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.”
Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.
These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.
All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.
Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.
And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;