Deuteronomy 14:1-21 ▼

1 Ye are the childern of the Lorde youre God, cut not youre selues nor make you any baldnes betwene the eyes for any mas deeth.

2 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, ad the Lorde hath chosen the to be a seuerall people vnto him selfe, of all the nacyons that are vppon the erth.

3 Ye shall eate no maner of abhominacyon.

4 These are the beestes which ye shall eate of: oxen, shepe and gootes,

5 hert, roo and bugle, hertgoote, vnicorne, origen and Camelion.

6 And all beestes that cleaue the hoffe and slytte it in to two clawes and chewe the cud, them ye shal eate.

7 Neuerthelesse, these ye shall not eate of them that chew cud ad of the that deuyde and cleaue the hoffe: the camell, the hare ad the conye. For they chew cud, but deuyde not the hoffe: ad therfore are vncleane vnto you:

8 ad also the swyne, for though he deuyde the hoffe, yet he cheweth not cud, ad therfor is vncleane vnto you: Ye shall not eate of the flesh of the nor twich the deed carkasses of them.

9 These ye shall eate off all that are in the waters: All that haue fynnes and scales.

10 And what soeuer hath not finnes and scales, of that ye may not eate, for that is vncleane vnto you.

11 Of all cleane byrdes ye shall eate,

12 but these are they of which ye maye not eate: the egle, the goshauke, the cormerant,

13 the ixion, the vultur, the kyte and hyr kynde,

14 and all kynde off rauens,

15 the Estrich, the nyghtcrowe, the kuckoo, the sparowhauke and all hir kynde,

16 the litle oule, the great oule, the backe,

17 the bytture, the pye

18 the storke, the heron, the Iaye in his kynde, the lapwynge, the swalowe:

19 And all crepynge foules are vncleane vnto you and maye not be eaten of:

20 but of all cleane foules ye maye well eate.

21 Ye shall eate of nothinge that dyeth alone: But thou mayst geue it vnto the straunger that is in thy citie that he eate it, or mayst sell it vnto an Aliet. For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God. Thou shalt not seth a kyd in his mothers mylke.