and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.

“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

“‘If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering from the birds, he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.

“‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground – creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.