Deuteronomy 14:6

Clean and Unclean Animals · Deuteronomy 14:1–21
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Translations

Modern
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
Traditional
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Literal
And every animal dividing the hoof and having split the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
Latin
Omne animal, quod in duas partes findit ungulam, et ruminat, comedetis.

Original

Hebrew
English
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

Notes

split hoof … chews the cud: These animals listed in in 14:4–5 could be eaten, unlike those in 14:7–8. People gained health benefits from following these rules. But something was ceremonially clean or unclean only because God said so.

Parallels

Leviticus 11:1–47 Acts 10:9–16

Glossary

Archaeology and the Bible Biblical Concept of Law Cleanness and Uncleanness, Regulations Concerning Covenant Deuteronomy, Book of Dietary Laws Hunting

Topics

Animals: Clean and Unclean Animals: Ordained As Food for Man Beasts: Clean: How Distinguished Cud: Chewing of, Was One of the Facts by Which Ceremonially Clean and Unclean Animals Were Distinguished Hoof: Parting of, One of the Physical Marks Used for Distinguishing Ceremonially Clean and Unclean Animals Sanitation: Food