All ritually clean birds you may eat.

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live. ¹ 

you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

Then he ¹  is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop ²  to decontaminate ³  the house,

and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water. ¹ 

“But now, ask the animals and they ²  will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

who teaches us ¹  more than ²  the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents ¹  of the seas.

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ¹ 

The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. ¹ 

And as he sowed, some seeds ¹  fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

They will all be left ¹  for the birds of the hills and the wild animals; ²  the birds will eat them during the summer, and all the wild animals will eat them during the winter.

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered ¹  into a clay vessel over fresh water. ² 

For ¹  it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

I looked and saw that there were no more people, ¹  and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

In it ¹  were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles ²  of the earth and wild birds. ³ 

then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, ¹  and some twigs of hyssop ²  be taken up ³  for the one being cleansed. ⁴ 

So Abram ¹  took all these for him and then cut them in two ²  and placed each half opposite the other, ³  but he did not cut the birds in half.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, ¹  their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. ²  That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. ³