Clean and Unclean Food

Deuteronomy 14

1 `Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead; 2 for a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 `Thou dost not eat any abominable thing; 4 `this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats, 5 hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois; 6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat. 7 `Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they [are] to you; 8 and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud, unclean it [is] to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

9 `This ye do eat of all that [are] in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat; 10 and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.

11 `Any clean bird ye do eat; 12 and these [are] they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind, 14 and every raven after its kind; 15 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind; 16 the [little] owl, and the [great] owl, and the swan, 17 and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat; 19 and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten; 20 any clean fowl ye do eat.

21 `Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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