Deuteronomy 14:3-21

International Children’s Bible

³ Do not eat anything the Lord hates. ⁴ These are the animals you may eat: ox, 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. ⁷ But you may not eat camels, rabbits or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but their feet are not divided. So they are unclean for you. ⁸ Pigs are also unclean for you. They have split hooves, 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. ¹⁰ But do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.

¹¹ You may eat any clean 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, seagulls, 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.

¹⁹ All insects with wings are unclean for you. Do not eat them. ²⁰ Other things with wings are clean. 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. He may eat it. Or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people. You belong to the Lord your God.

Do not cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.