Deuteronomy 14:1-13 ▼

1 Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abomination.

4 These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats,

5 The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle.

6 And an cattle cleaving the hoof and dividing the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it.

7 But this ye shall not eat, from those bringing up rumination, or from those cleaving the hoof of the cleft: the camel and the hare, and the coney; for they bringing up rumination and cleaving not the hoofs; they are unclean to you.

8 And the swine, because it cleaves the hoof, and not ruminating, it is unclean to you: from their flesh ye shall not eat, and upon their carcass ye shall not touch.

9 This shall ye eat from all which is in the waters: all which to it are fins and scales, ye shall eat:

10 And every thing which to it are not fins and scales, ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

11 All clean birds ye shall eat.

12 And this which ye shall not eat from them: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea eagle,

13 And the vulture, and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind,