Clean and unclean food

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Deut 14:1: Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deut 14:2: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deut 14:3: Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Deut 14:4: These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Deut 14:5: The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

Deut 14:6: 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.

Deut 14:7: Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

Deut 14:8: And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

Deut 14:9: These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

Deut 14:10: And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Deut 14:11: Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

Deut 14:12: But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the ospray,

Deut 14:13: And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

Deut 14:14: And every raven after his kind,

Deut 14:15: And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

Deut 14:16: The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

Deut 14:17: And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

Deut 14:18: And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

Deut 14:19: And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Deut 14:20: But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

Deut 14:21: Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.