^4 (A)These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

¹⁴ So I said, ^(A)“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten ^(B)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^(C)abominable^[a] flesh ever come into my mouth.”

⁸ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself ^(A)with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

^11 (A)Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.