Deuteronomy 14:1-13 ▼

1 “You are sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the dead.

2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

3 “You shall not eat any detestable thing.

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

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

6 And any animal that has a divided hoof and has its hoofs split in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, that animal you may eat.

7 However, you are not to eat these among the ones that chew the cud, or among those that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock hyrax, for though they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are unclean to you.

8 And the pig, because it has a divided 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 everything that is in the water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat,

10 but 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 these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

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