Deuteronomy 14:1-13 ▼

1 You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.

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

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

6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

11 All ritually clean birds you may eat.

12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,