[Heading—what is disliked and what is not so:] eating every fanged predator and every clawed bird is unlawful.
Chapter [on what consumption is lawful and what is not, what is discouraged and what is not]
[Heading—what is disliked and what is not so:] eating every fanged predator and every clawed bird is unlawful.
Unlawful are the hyena; the fox and jerboa; the ichneumon; black kite and sparrow hawk; long-tailed hawk; and the speckled crow that eats carrion.
Lawful are the farming crow (?), magpie, and stork.
Unlawful are the dab lizard (?), hedgehog, tortoise, hornet—all insects except locust, even having died naturally.
Horse flesh is unlawful.
Wild cattle, wild asses(?), mountain sheep(?): lawful.
Of marine animals none is lawful but all kinds of fish; what floats dead of natural causes is unlawful; lawful is what [other fish are] inside its belly; if sliced and it dies, separated and remainder lawful.
Regarding death by heat or cold: water‑leech (?): two narrations.
If he confines fish in a pool and they die from crowding—it is lawful; [for] what ebbed from it of water—or he casts it ashore alive and it dies—it is lawful.
If found on earth a dead fish—lawful; if finding half fish in water not lawful unless it appears cut by sword or the like.
If he buys a fish on a thread [line] while it is in the water, takes the thread, then hands it to the seller saying “keep it for me,” and another fish swallows it: the second belongs to the seller; he brings out the first and delivers it to the buyer without [right of] rescission even if swallowing damaged it. If the tethered [fish] swallows another, both belong to the buyer, whether or not he took possession.