Deuteronomy 14:1-19

1You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

2For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

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

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

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

7However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

9These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

12These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

13the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,

14every raven after its species,

15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,

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

17the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

18the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,

19and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.