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Deuteronomy 14:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. "

Deuteronomy 14:8

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6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

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"You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer."

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Exodus 22:31

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"“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs."

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"But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat."

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Deuteronomy 14:1

"You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."

Deuteronomy 14:2

"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."

Deuteronomy 14:3

"You shall not eat any abominable thing."

Deuteronomy 14:4

"These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,"

Deuteronomy 14:5

"the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois."

Deuteronomy 14:6

"Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat."

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