Deuteronomy 14:1-7

1 Ye are the sons of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness over your eyes for the dead.

2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the animals which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 the hart and the roebuck and the buffalo and the wild goat and the unicorn (rhinoceros) and the wild ox and the mountain goat,

6 and every animal that parts the hoof and cleaves the cleft into two claws and chews the cud among the beasts that ye shall eat.

7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you;

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.