# 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 for 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]])