³ Do not eat anything ·the Lord hates [^Ldetestable; abominable; cf. Lev. 11]. ⁴ These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats, ⁵ deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goats, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. ⁶ You may eat any animal that has a split hoof and chews the cud [^Cconsidered a normal land animal], ⁷ but you may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they do not have split hoofs, so they are unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] for you. ⁸ Pigs are also unclean for you; they have split hoofs, but they do not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.

⁹ There are many things that live in the water. You may eat anything that has fins and scales [^Cconsidered a normal aquatic creature], ¹⁰ but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] for you.

¹¹ You may eat any clean [^Cin a ritual sense] bird. ¹² But do not eat these birds: eagles, vultures, black vultures, ¹³ red kites, falcons, any kind of kite, ¹⁴ any kind of raven, ¹⁵ horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk, ¹⁶ little owls, great owls, white owls, ¹⁷ desert owls, ospreys, cormorants, ¹⁸ storks, any kind of heron, the hoopoes, or bats [^Cthe exact identification of many of these birds is disputed, but they all eat prey or dead matter and/or live in desolate places].

¹⁹ All insects with wings are unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] for you; do not eat them. ²⁰ Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.

²¹ Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a ·foreigner living in your town [resident alien living within your gates], and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God.

Do not cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk [^Cprobably a pagan ritual; Ex. 23:19].