Deuteronomy 14:4–20

⁴Here are the only animals you can eat. You can eat oxen, sheep, goats, ⁵deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild goats, ibexes, antelope and mountain sheep.

⁶You can eat any animal that has hoofs that are separated completely in two. But it must also chew the cud. ⁷Some animals only chew the cud. Others only have hoofs that are completely separated in two. The camel, rabbit and rock badger chew the cud, but they don’t have hoofs that are completely separated. So you can’t eat them. They are not “clean” for you.

⁸Pigs aren’t “clean” for you either. They have hoofs that are completely separated, but they don’t chew the cud. So don’t eat their meat. And don’t touch their dead bodies.

⁹Many creatures live in water. You can eat all of the ones that have fins and scales. ¹⁰But don’t eat anything that doesn’t have fins and scales. It isn’t “clean” for you.

¹¹You can eat any “clean” bird. ¹²But there are many birds you can’t eat. They include eagles, vultures, and black vultures. ¹³They include red kites, black kites and all kinds of falcons. ¹⁴They include all kinds of ravens. ¹⁵They include horned owls, screech owls, gulls and all kinds of hawks. ¹⁶They include little owls, great owls, white owls ¹⁷and desert owls. They include ospreys and cormorants. ¹⁸They include storks and all kinds of herons. They also include hoopoes and bats.

¹⁹All insects that fly together in groups are “unclean” for you. So don’t eat them. ²⁰But you can eat any creature that has wings and is “clean.”