Deuteronomy 14:1-8 ▼

1 “You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,

2 for you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

3 “You must not eat any detestable thing.

4 These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,

5 deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild goats, ibexes, antelopes, and mountain sheep.

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

7 But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these: camels, hares, and hyraxes, though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves — they are unclean for you;

8 and pigs, though they have hooves, they do not chew the cud — they are unclean for you. Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.