11:2 is an introductory sentence, and the first laws are from 11:3-11:8, and these discuss behamot which are not sherets.
11:9-12 record laws about fishes and the fish that are not allowed are referred to as sherets (11:10).
The third set of laws, 11:13-20, are about birds, and these are not referred to as sherets.
The fourth set of laws are with regard to flying insects, 11:20-23, and these are sherets, 11:20,21,23. Note that 11:20 and 11:23 form a bookend around 11:21,22, which record which insects can be eaten.
The fifth set of laws, 11:24-28, is about the behamot and the hayyot, and again they are not sherets.
The sixth set of laws, 11:29-38, is about the land animals that swarm and they are sherets, 11:29.
The seventh set of laws 11:39,40 is again about behamot, and these are not sherets.
The last set of laws 11:41,42 refers to eating animals that swarm, and these are referred to as sherets four times within the two sentences.
The pattern of the chapter is non-sherets to sherets and back again, and this is written to show in a literary way the idea of separation, kedusha.
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