OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 11:9

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“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

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Verse 9. Eat. The Egyptians, and the priests of the Syrian goddess, abstained from fish.—Pools. Hebrew and Septuagint torrents. Calmet.—Eels are prohibited, and so forth Menochius.

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