Deuteronomy (The Fifth Book of Moses, Commonly Called )



Deuteronomy, Chapter 14


"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.


For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.


"You shall not eat any abominable thing.


These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,


the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.


Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

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Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.

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And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

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