(A)You shall not eat any detestable thing. (B)These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, [a]the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. And any animal that has a divided hoof and has its hoofs split in two, and [b]chews the cud, among the animals, [c]that animal you may eat. However, you are not to eat these among the ones that [d]chew the cud, or among those that have the hoof divided in [e]two: the camel, the [f]rabbit, and the rock hyrax, for though they [g]chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are unclean to you. And the pig, because it has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, nor touch their carcasses.

“These you may eat of everything that is in the water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, 10 but anything that does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11 “You may eat any clean bird. 12 But (C)these are the ones that you shall not eat: the [h]eagle and the vulture and the [i]buzzard, 13 and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, 14 and every raven in its kind, 15 and the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, and the hawk in their kinds, 16 the little owl, the [j]great owl, the white owl, 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. 19 And all the swarming insects with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. 20 You may eat any clean bird.

21 (D)You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger who is in your [k]town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a stranger; for you are (E)a holy people to the Lord your God. (F)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 14:5 Exact identification of these animals is uncertain
  2. Deuteronomy 14:6 Lit brings up
  3. Deuteronomy 14:6 Lit it
  4. Deuteronomy 14:7 Lit bring up
  5. Deuteronomy 14:7 Lit a cleaving
  6. Deuteronomy 14:7 Or hare
  7. Deuteronomy 14:7 Lit bring up
  8. Deuteronomy 14:12 Or vulture
  9. Deuteronomy 14:12 Or black vulture
  10. Deuteronomy 14:16 Or great horned owl
  11. Deuteronomy 14:21 Lit gates

Do not eat any detestable thing.(A) These are the animals you may eat:(B) the ox, the sheep, the goat,(C) the deer,(D) the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat,(E) the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.[a] You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. However, 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. The 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.(F)

Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13 the red kite, the black kite, any kind(G) of falcon,(H) 14 any kind of raven,(I) 15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17 the desert owl,(J) the osprey, the cormorant, 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

19 All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.(K)

21 Do not eat anything you find already dead.(L) You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.(M)

Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(N)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 14:5 The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain.