Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 14:1-6 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

1. “You are children of Yahweh your God; therefore you must not gash yourself, and you must not make your forehead bald for the dead.

2. For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from among all of the peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

3. You shall not eat any detestable thing.

4. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goats,

5. deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.

6. And any animal having a split hoof and so a dividing of the hoof into two parts and that chews the cud among the animals—that animal you may eat.