The white owl, the desert owl, the osprey. Additional owls and the osprey — another bird of prey that dives for fish. The osprey joins the list of carnivorous and predatory birds. The multiple varieties of owl listed together communicate the comprehensive prohibition on the owl family: every type of owl, from the largest to the smallest, is unclean. The nocturnal hunters of the covenant community's world are consistently designated as unclean.

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