Deuteronomy 14:3

3 `Thou dost 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 `Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

2 for a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 `Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

4 `this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

5 hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;