ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, "Tell the people of Yisra'el, 'These are the living creatures which you may eat among all the land animals: any that

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, "Tell the people of Yisra'el, 'These are the living creatures which you may eat among all the land animals: any that has a separate hoof which is completely divided and chews the cud - these animals you may eat. But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a separate hoof. For example, the camel, the coney and the hare are unclean for you, because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof; while the pig is unclean for you, because, although it has a separate and completely divided hoof, it doesn't chew the cud. You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. Vayikra 11:1-8

I am a sheep. I have a divided hoof and I chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also drink my milk and use my wool to make clothing. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a deer. I have a divided hoof and I chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also use my hide for clothing and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a cow. I have a divided hoof and I chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also drink my milk and use my hide for clothes and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am an ox. I have a divided hoof and I chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also use me to plow your fields or thresh your grain. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a goat. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can use my hair to make yarn You can also use my horns to make your shofars. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am an antelope. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also use my horns to make your shofars. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a bison. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also use my hide for clothes and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a moose. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also use my hide to make clothes and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a caribou. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also you my hide to make clothes and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am an ibex. I have a divided hoof and chew the cud. I can be food for you. You can also drink my milk and use my hair to make yarn. You can use my horns to make your shofars. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a pig. I have a divided hoof but I do not chew the cud. I cannot be food for you. Some people keep me on their farms to eat their garbage. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a camel. I chew the cud but I do not have a divided hoof. I cannot be food for you. You can use me to carry things for you when traveling through the desert. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a horse. I chew the cud but I do not have a divided hoof. I cannot be food for you. You can ride me to get to places and I can help you plow your fields on your farm. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a squirrel. I do not have a divided hoof and I do not chew the cud. I cannot be food for you. Some people use my fur to make hats. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a rabbit. I chew the cud but I do not have a divided hoof. I cannot be food for you. Some people use my fur to make clothes. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a bear. I do not have a divided hoof and I do not chew the cud. I cannot be food for you. Some people use my fur to make clothes. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a llama. I chew the cud but I do not have a divided hoof. I cannot be food for you. You can use me to carry heavy loads and you can use my hair to make yarn. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a weasel. I do not have a divided hoof and I do not chew the cud. I cannot be food for you. Some people use my fur to make clothes and other things. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am an opossum. I do not have a divided hoof and I do not chew the cud. I cannot be food for you. Adonai has made me wonderful!

"'Of all the things that live in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in seas or in rivers -these you may eat. But everything in the seas and rivers without both fins and scales, of all the small watercreatures and of all the living creatures in the water, is a detestable thing for you. Yes, these will be detestable for you -you are not to eat their meat, and you are to detest their carcasses. Whatever lacks fins and scales in the water is a detestable thing for you. Vayikra 11:9-12

I am a bass. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a fresh water fish. You can find me in lakes, rivers, and stream. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a codfish. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I can be found in the ocean and live in the deep water. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a flounder. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a salt water fish who likes to live in lagoons. I cover myself with sand and mud to hide. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a red snapper. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a saltwater fish and people enjoy me very much. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a salmon. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a freshwater fish. I like to swim up streams against the water current. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a sardine. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a small saltwater fish. I can be eaten straight out of a can. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a tuna. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a very fast swimmer. There are 50 different types of tuna. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a yellow perch. I have fins and scales. I can be food for you. I am a fresh water fish. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a crab. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. I live at the bottom of the ocean. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a cuttlefish. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. Some people call me the chameleon of the sea because I can change my skin color to match where my surroundings. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a dolphin. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. There are 40 different species of dolphins. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am an eel. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. There are about 600 types of eels in the world. I live in both freshwater and saltwater. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a jellyfish. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. I am found in every ocean. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a lobster. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. I live in the bottom of the ocean. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am an octopus. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. I live in the ocean. I have eight legs and have suckers on them that help me moved around the ocean. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a shrimp. I do not have fins and scales. I cannot be food for you. I live in saltwater and freshwater. There are more than 2,000 different species of shrimp. Adonai made me wonderful!

"'The following creatures of the air are to be detestable for you - they are not to be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the kite, the various kinds of buzzards, the various kinds of ravens, the ostrich, the screech-owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawks, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the horned owl, the pelican, the barn owl, the stork, the various kinds of herons, the hoopoe and the bat. Vayikra 11: 13-19

I am a chicken. I can be food for you. I like to live out in the open grass. You can find me on farms. Most people like my eggs too. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a dove. I can be food for you. I brought the olive branch to Noach after the flood. Adonai has made me Wonderful!

I am a quail. I can be food for you. Adonai sent me to the children of Yisra el when they were in the wilderness. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a guinea fowl. I can be food to you. I like to live in Africa. Unlike chickens, I can fly but prefer to stay on the ground. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a partridge. I can be food for you. I am bigger than a quail. I have stronger feet and bill too. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a pheasant. I can be food for you. We can have very color feathers. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a prairie chicken. I can be food for you. There are not many of us left. I love wide open spaces to roam. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a pigeon. I can be food for you. I use my beak like a straw to suck water when I m thirsty. Adonai made me Wonderful!

I am a wild turkey. I can be food for you. I am the largest game bird in North America. I almost became the national bird for the USA. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am an eagle. I cannot be food for you. I am the national bird of the USA. There are 59 different types of eagles. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a hawk. I cannot be food for you. I am a bird of prey. There are more than 200 species of hawks throughout the world. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am an owl. I cannot be food for me. You cannot eat any type of owl. We like to come out night. There are about 144 types of owls. Adonai made me Wonderful!

I am an ostrich. I cannot be food for you. I am the largest bird in the world and I can weight up to 330 pounds. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a pelican. I cannot be food for you. There are 8 pelican species. I am a fish eater and I can eat up to 4 pounds of fish a day. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a raven. I cannot be food for you. I am a scavenger bird and I am considered to be very intelligent. I brought food to Eliyahu in the wilderness. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a seagull. I cannot be food for you. I am a scavenger bird and I enjoy hanging out by fishing boats and docks. I love to be where food is. Adonai has made me wonderful!

I am a stork. I cannot be food for you. I do not have bird call but I communicate through bill clattering. Adonai has made me wonderful!

"'All winged swarming creatures that go on all fours are a detestable thing for you; except that of all winged swarming creatures that go on all fours, you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, enabling them to jump off the ground. Specifically, of these you may eat the various kinds of locusts, grasshoppers, katydids and crickets. But other than that, all winged swarming creatures having four feet are a detestable thing for you Vayikra 11: 20-23

I am a cricket. I have jointed legs and leap on the earth. I can be food for you. There are 900 species of crickets. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a grasshopper. I have jointed legs and leap on the earth. I can be food for you. There are about 11,000 species of grasshoppers in the world. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a locust. I have jointed legs and leap on the earth. I can be food for you. There are 23,000 types of locust. Yochanan the Immerser ate me with wild honey. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am an aphid. I cannot be food for you. I like to eat plants. There are about 4,000 species of aphids. Adonai made me Wonderful!

I am a butterfly. I cannot be food for you. I drink nectar from flowers for food. There are 28,000 different species in the world. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a cockroach. I cannot be food for you. There are 4,000 species of cockroaches. We like to come out when it s dark. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a dragonfly. I cannot be food for you. There are 57,000 species of dragonflies. I like to be hang out around ponds and rivers. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a dung beetle. I cannot be food for you. I am also called a tumble bug. There are about 7,000 dung beetle species. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a firefly. I cannot be food for you. There are thousands of firefly species. I talk to other fireflies using my light. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a ladybug. I cannot be food for you. There are 45,000 different species of ladybugs in all the world. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a wasp. I cannot be food for you. There are 4,000 kinds of wasps in the United States. Adonai made me wonderful!

The following are unclean for you among the small creatures that swarm on the ground: the weasel, the mouse, the various kinds of lizards, the gecko, the land crocodile, the skink, the sand-lizard and the chameleon. They are unclean crawling creatures; whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening. Vayikra 11: 29-31

I am an alligator. I cannot be food for you. I live on land and in the water. I get heat from the sun. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a chameleon. I cannot be food for you. I can change colors to match my surroundings. This helps to protect me. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a lizard. I cannot be food for you. I use my tongue like a nose to smell things around me. As I grow I shed my skin. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a newt. I cannot be food for you. There are about 15 different species of newts. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a snake. I cannot be food for you. There are 2,700 types of snakes. Some snakes can live up to 50 years. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a toad. I cannot be food for you. I do not live near water. My skin is rough and bumpy. Adonai made me wonderful!

I am a turtle. I cannot be food for you. I have good eye sight and an excellent sense of smell. Adonai made me wonderful!

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