Deuteronomy 14:1-20

Revised Geneva Translation

14 “You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make yourself bald between your eyes for the dead.

² “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. And the LORD has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all the people who are upon the Earth.

³ “You shall eat no type of abomination.

⁴ “These are the beasts which you shall eat: beef, sheep, lamb, young goat, female goat,

⁵ “deer, gazelle, red deer, clean mountain goat, antelope, clean mountain sheep.

⁶ “And every beast that parts the hoof and divides the cleft into two claws and is of the beasts that chew the cud, that shall you eat.

⁷ “But these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that divide and split the hoof — the camel, the hare, the rock badger (for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof) — they shall be unclean to you.

⁸ “Also, the swine, because he does not divide the hoof and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

⁹ “These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat.

¹⁰ “And whatever has no fins or scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

¹¹ “Of all clean birds you shall eat.

¹² “But these are those of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

¹³ “the hawk, the falcon, the kite (after their kind),

¹⁴ “any kind of raven,

¹⁵ “the ostrich, the night crow, the seagull, the hawk (after her kind),

¹⁶ “the little owl, the great owl, the chameleon,

¹⁷ “the pelican, the carrion vulture, nor the cormorant:

¹⁸ “the stork, the heron (in his kind), the hoopoe, and the bat.

¹⁹ “And every creeping thing that flies shall be unclean to you. It shall not be eaten.

²⁰ “You may eat of all clean birds.