Leviticus 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ¹  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 13:37

13:37 If, as far as the priest can see, the scall has stayed the same ²  and black hair has sprouted in it, the scall has been healed; the person is clean. So the priest is to pronounce him clean. ³ 

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¹ tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

² tn Heb “and if in his eyes the infection has stood.”

³ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).