Deuteronomy 14:1-19

1“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead,

2for you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you out of all the peoples who are on the earth to be a people for His own possession.

3“You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the Lord and forbidden by Him].

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

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

6Among the animals, you may eat any animal that has the divided hoof [that is, a hoof] split into two parts [especially at its distal extremity] and that chews the cud.

7However, you are not to eat any of these [animals] among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel, the hare and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not split the hoof; they are unclean for you.

8The swine, because it has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You shall not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses.

9“Of all [creatures] that are in the waters, you may eat these: anything that has fins and scales you may eat,

10but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

11“You may eat any clean bird.

12But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black buzzard,

13and the red kite, the falcon, and the birds of prey of any variety,

14and every raven of any variety,

15and the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any variety,

16the little owl, the great owl, the long-eared owl,

17the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

18the stork, and the heron of any variety, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19And all flying insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.