Deuteronomy 14:3

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Deuteronomy 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:3

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.
] That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.

Deuteronomy 14:3 In-Context

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,