OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 9

Deuteronomy 14:9

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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

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Deuteronomy 14:6–12

6

Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

7

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

8

The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

9
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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

10

You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

11

Of all clean birds you may eat.

12

But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

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