Leviticus 11:16
The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- struthionem, et noctuam, et larum, et accipitrem juxta genus suum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἱέρακα καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Ostrich; which was served up at the tables of the Persian kings. Hebrew, "the daughter of the hiena;" (both êiáne) or the swan, Isaias xiii. 21.
Owl, or perhaps the male ostrich, which cruelly abandons its young.
Larus, the water-hen. (Calmet)
Some have the cuckow. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.