Deuteronomy 14
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Deuteronomy 14:3-20

3You must not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the animals that you may eat:1

The ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

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

7But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following:

the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger.2 8Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you, as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

9Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales, 10but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

11You may eat any clean bird, 12but these you may not eat:

the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite, 14any kind of raven, 15the ostrich,3 the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

19All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten. 20But you may eat any clean bird.

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Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 14:4 The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain. ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 14:7 Or the coney or the hyrax ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 14:15 Literally the daughter of the ostrich or the daughter of the owl ↩

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