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Deuteronomy 14:2-12

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2 "For you are 1a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a 2people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3 "3You shall not eat any detestable thing.
4 "4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep *, the goat,
5 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 two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
7 "Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they 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 5these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
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Deuteronomy 14:2-12 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 5

  • 1. Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 7:6; Romans 12:1
  • 2. Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 26:18; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9
  • 3. Ezekiel 4:14
  • 4. Leviticus 11:2-45; Acts 10:14
  • 5. Leviticus 11:13

Footnotes 11

  • [a]. Or "special treasure"
  • [b]. Exact identification of these animals is uncertain
  • [c]. Lit "two hoofs"
  • [d]. Lit "brings up"
  • [e]. Lit "brings up"
  • [f]. Lit "a cleaving"
  • [g]. Or "hare"
  • [h]. A small, shy, furry animal "(Hyrax syriacus)" found in the peninsula of the Sinai, northern Israel, and the region round the Dead Sea; KJV "coney," orig NASB "rock-badger"
  • [i]. Lit "brings up"
  • [j]. Or "vulture"
  • [k]. Or "black vulture"
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