Deuteronomy 14:1-10

1 Be ye the sons of your Lord God; ye shall not cut you(rselves), neither ye shall make baldness (upon yourselves), upon a dead man, (Ye be the children, or the people, of the Lord your God; ye shall not cut yourselves, nor shall ye make yourselves bald, when mourning for a dead person,)
2 for thou art an holy people to thy Lord God, and he chose thee that thou be to him into a special people, of all the folks that be upon earth. (for thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and he chose thee that thou be to him a special people, out of all the nations, or all the peoples, that be upon the earth.)
3 Eat ye not those things that be unclean.
4 This is a beast which ye shall eat (These be the beasts which ye shall eat); an ox, and a sheep, and a goat,
5 an hart, a capret, a wild ox, (a) tragelaph, that is, a beast in part like a goat buck, and in part like an hart, a pygarg, an ostrich, a camelopard. (a deer, a gazelle, a wild ox, or a buffalo, a tragelaph, that is, a beast in part like a goat buck, and in part like a deer, an antelope, an ostrich, and a giraffe.)
6 Ye shall eat each beast that parteth the claw into two parts, and cheweth the cud. (Ye may eat any beast which hath a divided hoof, or foot, and cheweth the cud.)
7 And ye shall not eat these beasts, of them that chew the cud, and part not the claw; a camel, an hare, and a coney; for these chew the cud, and part not the claw, they shall be unclean to you; (But ye shall not eat those beasts, which chew the cud, but do not have a divided hoof, or foot; such as a camel, a hare, and a rock-badger; for these chew the cud, but do not have a divided hoof, or foot, and so they shall be unclean to you;)
8 also a swine, for it parteth the claw, and cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean (and a pig, for it hath a divided hoof, but it cheweth not the cud, and so it shall be unclean); ye shall not eat the flesh of them, and ye shall not touch their dead bodies.
9 Ye shall eat these things, of all that dwell in waters (Of all the things that live in water, these ye shall eat); eat ye those things that have fins and scales;
10 eat ye not those things that be without fins and scales, for those be unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:1-10 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.

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