Deuteronomy 14:6-16

6 any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud.

7 But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven hoof - that makes them ritually unclean.

8 And pigs: Don't eat pigs - they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass.

9 This is what you may eat from the water: anything that has fins and scales.

10 But if it doesn't have fins or scales, you may not eat it. It's ritually unclean.

11 You may eat any ritually clean bird.

12 These are the exceptions, so don't eat these: eagle, vulture, black vulture,

13 kite, falcon, the buzzard family,

14 the raven family,

15 ostrich, nighthawk, the hawk family,

16 little owl, great owl, white owl,

Deuteronomy 14:6-16 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.