“And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,”
The horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk. Owls, gulls, and hawks continue the list. Owls are nocturnal predators; gulls are scavenging sea birds; hawks are birds of prey. The pattern of the unclean bird list — birds associated with hunting, carrion, and unclean places — continues. Deuteronomy 14:11–18 provides a parallel list with some variations in the specific birds named, confirming that the list of unclean birds is a defined category of the covenant law rather than an exhaustive or comprehensive catalogue of every bird species.
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