CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOODS

3 “You must not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat:

oxen, sheep, goats,

5 deer, gazelles, roe deer,

wild goats, ibexes, antelopes,

and mountain sheep.

6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.B 7 But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

camels, hares, and hyraxes,

though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—

they are unclean for you;

8 and pigs, though they have hooves, they do not chew the cud—

they are unclean for you.

Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.d

9 “You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales, 10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.e

11 “You may eat every clean bird, 12 but these are the ones you may not eat:

eagles, bearded vultures,

black vultures, 13 the kites,

any kind of falcon,C

14 every kind of raven, 15 ostriches,

short-eared owls, gulls,

any kind of hawk,

16 little owls, long-eared owls,

barn owls, 17 eagle owls,

ospreys, cormorants, 18 storks,

any kind of heron,

hoopoes, and bats.D,f

19 All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten. 20 But you may eat every clean flying creature.g

21 “You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.