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Deuteronomy 14:4–20

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4Here are the ⸤kinds of⸥ animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats, 5deer, gazelles, fallow deer,awild goats, mountain goats, antelope, and mountain sheep. 6You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud. 7But some animals chew their cud, while others have completely divided hoofs. You may not eat these ⸤kinds of⸥ animals. They include camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. (Although they chew their cud, they don’t have divided hoofs. They are uncleanbfor you.) 8Also, you may not eat pigs. (Although their hoofs are divided, they don’t chew their cud.) Never eat their meat or touch their dead bodies. 

9Here’s what you may eat of every creature that lives in the water: You may eat any creature that has fins and scales. 10But never eat anything that doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean for you. 

11You may eat any clean bird. 12But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, 13buzzards, all types of kites, 14all types of crows, 15ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, 16little owls, great owls, barn owls, 17pelicans, ospreys, cormorants, 18storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats. 

19Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten. 20However, you may eat any ⸤other kind of⸥ flying creature that is clean. 

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Footnotes

  1. a14:5 A specific species of deer.
  2. b14:7 “Unclean” refers to anything that is not presentable to God.