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deer, wild goats, mountain goats, antelopes and wild sheep. You may eat any animal with feet that have two separate parts. They must also bring their food back into their mouths and eat it again.[a]

But you must not eat these animals: camels, wild rabbits and rock badgers. They eat their food a second time, but they do not have feet with two separate parts. For this reason they are unclean food for you.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:6 All the animals in verses 4 and 5 have feet that grow in two parts. They also bring their food back into their mouths and eat it again. God said that these were ‘clean’ animals. That means that the Israelites could eat them.