Deuteronomy 14:3-21

New Catholic Bible

Clean and Unclean Food.^{[a] 3} You are not to eat any abominable thing. ⁴ These are the animals that you can eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵ the gazelle, the roebuck, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild ox, and the mountain sheep. ⁶ Every animal that has a cleft hoof, its hoof is divided in two parts, and that chews its cud is an animal that you can eat. ⁷ However, there are animals that chew their cud, or that have a cleft hoof that you cannot eat: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew their cud but do not have a cleft hoof, so they are unclean for you. ⁸ Likewise, pigs have a cleft hoof, but they do not chew their cud, so they are unclean for you. You are not to eat their meat, nor even touch their dead carcasses.

⁹ You can eat any water creature that has fins and scales; those you can eat. ¹⁰ Whatever does not have fins or scales, you are not to eat. It is unclean for you.

¹¹ You can eat any clean bird. ¹² These are the birds you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the osprey, ¹³ the hawk, the kite, any type of vulture, ¹⁴ any kind of raven, ¹⁵ the owl, the night hawk, the gull, any type of falcon, ¹⁶ the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl, ¹⁷ the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, ¹⁸ the stork, any type of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. ¹⁹ Every type of flying insect is unclean for you. You shall not eat it, ²⁰ but you can eat any type of clean bird.

²¹ Do not eat anything that died on its own. You can give it to a foreigner who is living in your town, and he can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people who are holy to the Lord, your God. You shall not eat a kid goat boiled in its mother’s milk.^[b]