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Leviticus 11:15

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Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo (o), is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this see

Job 38:41.

(o) Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.

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