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Permitted and Prohibited Aquatic Creatures
Where this fits in the story: Participates in the same pre-Sinai clean/unclean and creation-order world as the land-animal section.
Where Scripture takes it next: Mark 7 and Acts 10 address food/clean-unclean questions at a broader level but do not isolate aquatic creatures.
Evidence boundary: No warranted NT or Christological symbolism is attached to fins/scales themselves.
Leviticus 11 says aquatic creatures are permitted for Israel when they have fins and scales and prohibited when they do not. Deuteronomy 14 repeats the same fins-and-scales criterion almost verbatim, providing a direct Torah parallel that confirms the clean/unclean food distinction rather than introducing a new dietary standard.
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