Unclean Food Under Old Testament Law

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LEVITICUS 11:1-47  DEUTERONOMY 14:1-21

Unclean Animals:

1. Camel (4)
2. Coney (5)
3. Rabbit (6)
4. Pig (7)
5. Water creatures having no fins or scales (10)
6. Eagle (13)
7. Osssifrage (13)
8. Osprey (13)
9. Vulture (14)
10. Kite (14)
11. Raven (15)
12. Owl (16)
13. Night hawk (16)
14. Cuckoo (16)
15. The little owl (17)
16. Cormorant (17)
17. Great owl (17)
18. Swan (18)
19. Pelican (18)
20. Gier eagle (18)
21. Stork (19)
22. Heron (19)
23. Lapwing (19)
24. Bat (19)
25. Winged creatures with four jointed legs (23)
26. Weasel (29)
27. Mouse (29)
28. Tortoise (29)
29. Ferret (30)

Additional Unclean Animals:

1. Chameleon (30)
2. Lizard (30)
3. Snail (30)
4. Mole (30)
5. Hawk (15)

Other Prohibitions:

  • Flying insects that swarm (19)
  • Anything that died a natural death (21)
  • A goat in its mother’s milk (21)

“This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.” Leviticus 11:46-47



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