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Deuteronomy 14:4-19 Good News Bible (GNB)

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; hoopoes; and bats.

19. “All winged insects are unclean; do not eat them.

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