Deuteronomy 14:1-13 ▼

1 |You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your foreheads on account of the dead,

2 because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the peoples of the earth.|

3 |You must not eat any detestable food.

4 These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,

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

6 You may eat every animal with a divided hoof—those with split cloven hooves—that chews the cud.

7 However, you must not eat these animals that chew the cud or have a divided hoof: the camel, hare, and rock badger. Even though they chew the cud, their hooves are not divided. Therefore they are unclean for you.

8 And also the pig, because even though its hoof is divided, it does not chew the cud. It is therefore unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or even touch their carcasses.

9 |You may choose to eat from these creatures in the water: you may eat anything with fin and scale,

10 but you may not eat anything without fin and scale, since it is unclean to you.

11 |You may eat all clean birds.

12 But you must not eat from any of these: the eagle, vulture, osprey,

13 buzzard, any kind of kite,