Deuteronomy 14:1-7

Clean and Unclean Food

1 You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

3 Do not eat any detestable thing.

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

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.^[a]

6 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.

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Deuteronomy 14:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 14

In this chapter some cautions are given against the use of some rites and ceremonies in mourning for the dead, with the reason thereof, De 14:1,2 and instructions about what are lawful to be eaten, and what not, whether of beasts, fishes, or fowl, De 14:3-21, and concerning eating one sort of tithes both at the place God should choose, and within their own gates, De 14:22-29.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Leviticus 19:28; Leviticus 21:5; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 41:5; S John 1:12; S Romans 8:14; Romans 9:8; Galatians 3:26
2. S Genesis 28:14; Exodus 22:31; Isaiah 6:13; Malachi 2:15
3. S Leviticus 20:26; Romans 12:1
4. S Exodus 8:22; S Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 26:18-19
5. Ezekiel 4:14
6. Leviticus 11:2-45; Acts 10:14
7. S Leviticus 7:23
8. S Deuteronomy 12:15
9. Job 39:1; Psalms 104:18

Footnotes 1

[a]. The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain.