Deuteronomy 14:3–21

Clean and Unclean Foods

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

the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer,

the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope,

and the mountain sheep.

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

the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,

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

they are * unclean for you;

8 and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—

it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses. k

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. l

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

the eagle, the bearded vulture,

the black vulture, 13 the kite,

any kind of falcon, m

14 every kind of raven, 15 the ostrich,

the short-eared owl, the gull,

any kind of hawk,

16 the little owl, the long-eared owl,

the white owl, 17 the desert owl,

the osprey, the cormorant, 18 the stork,

any kind of heron,

the hoopoe, and the bat. n o

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

21 “You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your 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. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.