Creatures that were forbidden to be eaten

14 “We are people who belong to Yahweh our God. So, when people die, do not show that you are grieving by gashing/cutting yourselves or by shaving the hair on your foreheads like the other people-groups do. 2 We belong to Yahweh alone. Yahweh chose us from all the other people-groups on the earth to be his special people.

3 “Do not eat anything that Yahweh detests. 4 The animals whose meat you are permitted to eat are cattle, sheep, goats, 5 deer, gazelles, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep. 6 Those are animals that have split hoofs and that also ◄chew their cuds/regurgitate their food from their stomachs to chew it again►. 7 But there are other animals that chew their cuds that you must not eat. Those are camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. They chew their cuds, but their hooves are not split. So they are not acceptable for you to eat. 8 Do not eat pigs. They are unacceptable for you to eat; their hooves are split, but they do not chew cud. Do not eat the meat of those animals; do not even touch their dead bodies. 9 You are permitted to eat any fish that has scales and fins. 10 But anything else that lives in the water that does not have scales and fins, you must not eat, because if you eat them, you will become unacceptable to Yahweh.

11 “You are permitted to eat the flesh of any bird that is acceptable to Yahweh. 12 But eagles, vultures, black vultures, 13 buzzards, all kinds of kites, 14 all kinds of crows, 15 ostriches, seagulls, 16 owls, hawks, falcons, 17 pelicans, vultures that eat dead animals, cormorants, 18 storks, herons, hoopoes, and bats, you must not eat.

19 “All insects with wings and which walk on the ground are unacceptable to Yahweh; do not eat them. 20 But other insects with wings and which hop along the ground are acceptable to eat.

21 “Do not eat any animal that has died naturally, because its blood has not been drained out. You may allow foreigners who live among you to eat those things or you may sell them to other foreigners. But you belong to Yahweh our God; and those who belong to him are not permitted to eat the meat of animals whose blood has not been drained out.

“You must not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother’s milk.”