Deuteronomy 14:8-18

8 Also, you may not eat pigs. (Although their hoofs are divided, they don't chew their cud.) Never eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.

9 Here's what you may eat of every creature that lives in the water: You may eat any creature that has fins and scales.

10 But never eat anything that doesn't have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.

11 You may eat any clean bird.

12 But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

13 buzzards, all types of kites,

14 all types of crows,

15 ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

16 little owls, great owls, barn owls,

17 pelicans, ospreys, cormorants,

18 storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

Deuteronomy 14:8-18 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.