# General Information:

Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel.

# Of these things that are in water you may eat

"You may eat these kinds of animals that live in the water"

# fins

the thin, flat part which the fish uses to move through the water

# scales

the small plates that cover the body of the fish

# they are unclean to you

Something Yahweh says is unfit for his people to eat is spoken of as if it were physically unclean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/water]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/clean]]