Deuteronomy 14:3

3 "You shall 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 "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

3 "You shall not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5 the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.