Deuteronomy 14:1–21

Clean and Unclean Animals

¹“You are ^athe sons of the Lord your God; ^byou shall not cut yourselves nor ¹shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

²“For you are ^aa holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a ^bpeople for His ¹own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

³“^aYou shall not eat any detestable thing.

⁴“^aThese are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

⁵¹the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.

⁶“Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in ¹two and ²chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.

⁷“Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which ¹chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in ²two: the camel and the ³rabbit and the ⁴shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.

⁸“The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

⁹“These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat,

¹⁰but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

¹¹“You may eat any clean bird.

¹²“But ^athese are the ones which you shall not eat: the ¹eagle and the vulture and the ²buzzard,

¹³and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,

¹⁴and every raven in its kind,

¹⁵and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,

¹⁶the little owl, the ¹great owl, the white owl,

¹⁷the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

¹⁸the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.

¹⁹“And all the ¹teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

²⁰“You may eat any clean bird.

²¹“^aYou shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your ¹town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are ^ba holy people to the Lord your God. ^cYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.