Dietary laws
3 Don't eat any detestable thing.
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Here's a list of animals you are allowed to eat: ox, sheep, goat,
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deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
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You are also allowed to eat any animal with a divided hoof—the hoof being divided into two parts—and that rechews food among the various kinds of animals.
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However, here's a list of animals that either rechew food or have hooves divided in two parts that you are not allowed to eat: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger—because these rechew food but don't have divided hoofs, they are off-limits for you;
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and the pig—because it has a divided hoof but doesn't rechew food, it's off-limits for you. You may not eat these animals' meat, and you must not touch their carcasses.
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Here's a list of the water animals you are allowed to eat: you can eat anything that has fins and scales.
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But you aren't allowed to eat anything that lacks scales or fins. These are off-limits for you.
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You are allowed to eat any clean bird.
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Here's a list of those you are not allowed to eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
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the red kite, the black kite, and any kind of bird of prey,
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the ostrich, the nighthawk, the seagull, any kind of hawk,
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the small owl and the large owl, the water hen,
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the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
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the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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Also, all winged insects are off-limits for you. They are not to be eaten.
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Any clean winged creature can be eaten, however.
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You must not eat any decayed animal flesh because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You can give decayed animal flesh to the immigrants who live in your cities, and they can eat it; or you can sell it to foreigners. Don't cook a lamb in its own mother's milk.