Holy Scripture
Leviticus 11:7
A church father on this verse
“The all-wise Educator, by the lips of Moses, compared association with corrupt men to living with swine when he forbade the ancient people to partake of swine. He made it plain in those words that they who invoke God should not seek the company of the unclean who, like swine, revel in bodily pleasures and filthy habit…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7And the swine, because this animal divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, and it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
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5And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
6And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
— Leviticus 11:7 —
8Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall not touch their carcasses; these are unclean to you.
9And these are what ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all things that have fins and scales in the waters, and in the seas, and in the brooks, these ye shall eat.