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Clean And Unclean Animals

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topics: Animals, Birds, Fish, Insects.

The category of clean and unclean creatures distinguishes which animals, birds, fish, and insects the Mosaic law permitted Israel to eat or offer in sacrifice and which were forbidden, organizing creatures of land, air, and water into a single ritual framework.

Click the following to read the full topics on this subject: Animals, Birds, Fish, Insects