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Fishes: Distinction Between Clean and Unclean

Source: TTT

Leviticus 11:9–12 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales. / But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales. / They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
Deuteronomy 14:9, 10 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales, / but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.