Deuteronomy 14:1-21
Clean and Unclean Animals

1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

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3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

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6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.

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8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it [is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

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9 These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

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10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.

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11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

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12 But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

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14 And every raven after his kind,

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15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

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17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

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18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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19 And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

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20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.

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21 Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

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