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Deuteronomy 14:6-21 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

6. Any among the animals that has divided hooves, with the foot cloven in two, and that chews the cud you may eat.

7. But you shall not eat any of the following that chew the cud or have cloven hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, which indeed chew the cud, but do not have divided hooves; they are unclean for you.

8. And the pig, which indeed has divided hooves, with cloven foot, but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch.

9. These you may eat, of all that live in the water: whatever has both fins and scales you may eat,

10. but all those that lack either fins or scales you shall not eat; they are unclean for you.

11. You may eat all clean birds.

12. But you shall not eat any of the following: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

13. the various kites and falcons,

14. all kinds of crows,

15. the eagle owl, the kestrel, the long-eared owl, all species of hawks,

16. the little owl, the screech owl, the barn owl,

17. the horned owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

18. the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

19. All winged insects are also unclean for you and shall not be eaten.

20. Any clean winged creatures you may eat.

21. You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God.You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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