Lapwing

The bird traditionally rendered "lapwing" appears in the two parallel lists of forbidden birds in the dietary law. UPDV renders the Hebrew name as "hoopoe" rather than "lapwing," and in both occurrences it stands near the end of the list, paired with the bat as the closing items.

In the Levitical Dietary List

The Leviticus inventory of birds that "will not be eaten" because they are "detestable" (Le 11:13) closes with "the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat" (Le 11:19). The hoopoe is named without further description, sitting in sequence after the long-legged wading birds and immediately before the bat, which closes the list.

In the Deuteronomic Dietary List

The Deuteronomic parallel introduces the catalogue with "Of all clean birds you⁺ may eat. But these are those of which you⁺ will not eat" (Dt 14:11-12), and concludes with the same pairing: "and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat" (Dt 14:18). The Deuteronomic ordering matches the Levitical one almost word for word, and the hoopoe again stands second to last, ahead only of the bat.