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At a clear stream flowing toward the sea, an Israelite parent teaches older children to distinguish a fish with obvious fins and overlapping scales from nearby aquatic creatures lacking one or both features, such as an eel and a small shellfish. The permitted fish is foregrounded and the others remain in water. No catch basket, eating, dead fish, blood, labels, modern gear, or fantastical sea monsters.
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Leviticus 11:9-12

Fins and scales in the waters

Clean and Unclean Creatures · Leviticus 11

Story guide: At a clear stream flowing toward the sea, an Israelite parent teaches older children to distinguish a fish with obvious fins and overlapping scales from nearby aquatic creatures lacking one or both features, such as an eel and a small shellfish. The permitted fish is foregrounded and the others remain in water. No catch basket, eating, dead fish, blood, labels, modern gear, or fantastical sea monsters.

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9These you may eat from all that are in the waters: whatever in the waters, in the seas and in the streams, has fins and scales—these you may eat.

10But everything in the seas and in the streams that does not have fins and scales, among all the swarming things in the waters and among all the living creatures that are in the waters—they are detestable to you.

11And they shall be detestable to you; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall regard their carcasses as detestable.

12Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

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