Deuteronomy 14
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Deuteronomy 14:4-20

4These are the animals you may eat: 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 divided hoof and that chews the cud.

7However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.

8The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

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

11You may eat any clean bird.

12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,

14any kind of raven,

15the horned owl, 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 and the bat.

19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.

20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

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