Clean and Unclean Meat
Deuteronomy
14:3-20 (New King James Version)
3 “You shall not eat any
detestable thing. 4 These
are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the deer, the gazelle, the
roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat,
the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 And you may eat every
animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and
that chews the cud, among the animals.
7 Nevertheless, of those
that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as
these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but
do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.
8 Also the swine is unclean
for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the
cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.
9 “These you may eat of all
that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.
10 And whatever does not
have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
11 “All clean birds you may
eat. 12 But these you shall
not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
13 the red kite, the falcon,
and the kite after their kinds; 14
every raven after its kind; 15
the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their
kinds; 16 the little owl,
the screech owl, the white owl, 17
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,
18 the stork, the heron
after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
19 “Also every creeping
thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
20 “You may eat all clean
birds.
