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 roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

6Among the animals, you may eat any animal that splits the hoof—the hoof completely split in two—and chews the cud.

7Yet of those that chew the cud or have a split hoof, you are not to eat the camel, the hare, and the rabbit—because they chew the cud but do not split the hoof, they are unclean to you.

8The pig, because it splits the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you—you are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

9Of all that are in the waters, these you may eat: whatever has fins and scales you may eat,

10but whatever does not have fins and scales you are not to eat—it is unclean to you.

11You may eat all clean birds,

12but these are the ones you are not to eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

13the red kite, the black kite, and any bird of prey of that kind,

14every raven of any kind,

15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, a hawk of any kind,

16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

17the pelican, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,

18the stork, a heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

19All winged insects are unclean to you—they are not to be eaten.

20You may eat any clean bird.

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