Leviticus 11:1-17
Clean and Unclean Land Creatures
11:1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,
11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
11:3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
11:4 However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
11:5 The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
11:6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
11:7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.
11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
Clean and Unclean Water Creatures
11:9 “‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.
11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.
11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
11:12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
Clean and Unclean Birds
11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
11:14 the kite, the buzzard of any kind,
11:15 every kind of crow,
11:16 the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,
11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the screech owl,
Leviticus 20:25
20:25 Therefore you must distinguish
between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground – creatures
I have distinguished for you as unclean.
Deuteronomy 14:1-29
The Holy and the Profane
14:1 You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
14:2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
14:3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
14:4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
14:5 the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.
14:6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
14:10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
14:11 All ritually clean birds you may eat.
14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
14:13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,
14:14 every raven after its species,
14:15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,
14:16 the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,
14:17 the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
14:18 the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,
14:19 and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.
14:20 You may eat any clean bird.
14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Offering of Tribute
14:22 You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.
14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
14:24 When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,
14:25 you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.
14:26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.
14:27 As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
14:28 At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.
14:29 Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.
Ezekiel 4:14
4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
Ezekiel 44:31
44:31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.