Deuteronomy 14:1-19

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,

2for 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.

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

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

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

7But 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;

8and 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.

9“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,

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

11“You may eat every clean bird,

12but these are the ones you may not eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

13the kites, any kind of falcon,

14every kind of raven,

15ostriches, short-eared owls, gulls, any kind of hawk,

16little owls, long-eared owls, barn owls,

17eagle owls, ospreys, cormorants,

18storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, and bats.

19All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.