Font Size
Deuteronomy 14:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 14:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Clean and Unclean Food.[a] 3 You are not to eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the animals that you can eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the gazelle, the roebuck, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 14:3 One would “be a slave” of alien gods if one were to eat animals consecrated to them. The law prohibits this (Ex 34:15). The list includes some other animals that are excluded either by custom or for reasons of hygiene.
