Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Deuteronomy 14:7-20 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

7. But don’t eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. So these animals are not a clean food for you.

8. And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don’t chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don’t eat any meat from pigs. Don’t even touch a pig’s dead body.

9. “You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales.

10. But don’t eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.

11. “You may eat any clean bird.

12. But don’t eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,

13. red kites, falcons, any kind of kite,

14. any kind of raven,

15. horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk,

16. little owls, great owls, white owls,

17. desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

18. storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.

19. “All insects with wings are unclean, so don’t eat them.

20. But you may eat any clean bird.