Deuteronomy 14:3-21

Good News Translation

Clean and Unclean Animals^(A)

³ “Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean. ⁴ You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, ⁵ deer, wild sheep, wild goats, or antelopes— ⁶ any animals that have divided hoofs and that also chew the cud. ⁷ But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs. ⁸ Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies.

⁹ “You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales, ¹⁰ but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.

¹¹ “You may eat any clean bird. ^12-18 But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants;^[a] hoopoes; and bats.

¹⁹ “All winged insects are unclean; do not eat them. ²⁰ You may eat any clean insect.

^21 (B)“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people.

“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.