Deuteronomy 14:1-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

Clean and Unclean Animals

14 “You are ^(A)the sons of the Lord your God; ^(B)you shall not cut yourselves nor ^[a]shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. ² For you are ^(C)a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a ^(D)people for His ^[b]own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

³ “^(E)You shall not eat any detestable thing. ^4 (F)These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ^5 [c]the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. ⁶ Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in ^[d]two and ^[e]chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. ⁷ Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which ^[f]chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in ^[g]two: the camel and the ^[h]rabbit and the ^[i]shaphan, for though they ^[j]chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. ⁸ The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

⁹ “These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, ¹⁰ but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

¹¹ “You may eat any clean bird. ¹² But ^(G)these are the ones which you shall not eat: the ^[k]eagle and the vulture and the ^[l]buzzard, ¹³ and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, ¹⁴ and every raven in its kind, ¹⁵ and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, ¹⁶ the little owl, the ^[m]great owl, the white owl, ¹⁷ the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, ¹⁸ the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. ¹⁹ And all the ^[n]teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. ²⁰ You may eat any clean bird.