for you are a people holy(A) to the Lord your God.(B) Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.(C)

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

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Footnotes

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

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