Deuteronomy 14:1-19

1You are people who belong to the Lord your God. When someone dies, you are sad. But do not cut your bodies. Do not cut off all the hair from the front of your head.

2You are the Lord's own special people. He has chosen you to belong to him. You are much more valuable to him than any other people in the whole earth.

3Do not eat anything that God says is unclean.

4You may eat the meat of these animals: cows, sheep, goats,

5deer, wild goats, mountain goats, antelopes and wild sheep.

6You may eat any animal with feet that have two separate parts. They must also bring their food back into their mouths and eat it again.

7But you must not eat these animals: camels, wild rabbits and rock badgers. They eat their food a second time, but they do not have feet with two separate parts. For this reason they are unclean food for you.

8You may not eat pigs, either. They have feet in two parts but they do not eat their food a second time. You must not eat any meat from these animals. You must not even touch their dead bodies.

9You may eat any fish that has fins and scales.

10But other things that live in the water do not have fins or scales. Those are not clean food for you. Do not eat them.

11You may eat any clean bird.

12But these birds you must not eat: eagles, vultures, kites, owls, hawks, falcons, buzzards, ostriches, seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants, hoopoes and bats.

19Some insects have wings but they walk on the ground. Insects like that are unclean food for you. You must not eat them.