Deuteronomy 14:1-13 ▼

1 “You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

2 for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 You do not eat any abomination;

4 this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

5 deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer;

6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

7 Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax, for they are bringing up the cud, but the hoof has not divided—they [are] unclean to you;

8 and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud—it [is] unclean to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass.

9 This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat;

10 and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.

11 Any clean bird you eat;

12 and these [are] they of which you do not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

13 and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,