Deuteronomy 14:3-21

International Standard Version

Refrain from Unclean Food

³ “You must not eat any detestable food. ⁴ These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, ⁵ deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. ⁶ You may eat every animal with a divided hoof—those with split cloven hooves—that chews the cud. ⁷ However, you must not eat these animals that chew the cud or have a divided hoof: the camel, hare, and rock badger. Even though they chew the cud, their hooves are not divided. Therefore, they are unclean for you. ⁸ And also the pig, because even though its hoof is divided, it does not chew the cud. It is therefore unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or even touch their carcasses.

⁹ “You may choose to eat from these creatures in the water: you may eat anything with fin and scale, ¹⁰ but you may not eat anything without fin and scale, since it is unclean to you.

¹¹ “You may eat all clean birds, ¹² but you must not eat any of these: the eagle, vulture, osprey, ¹³ buzzard, any kind of kite, ¹⁴ any kind of raven, ¹⁵ the ostrich, night hawk, seagull, any kind of falcon, ¹⁶ the little owl, great owl, horned owl, ¹⁷ pelican, carrion vulture, cormorant, ¹⁸ stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. ¹⁹ Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you—they are not to be eaten. ²⁰ You may eat every bird that is clean.

²¹ “You must not eat any carcass,^[a] but you may give it to the alien in your cities^[b] so he may either consume it or sell it to a foreigner, since you are a people that is holy to the Lord your God.

“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”