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Commonly Consumed

Biblically Clean & Unclean Animals


NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list.

Clean Ruminant Animals- Deuteronomy 14:4-6


Antelope

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat:


the ox, the sheep, and the goat

Buffalo
Cow

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow


deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and
the wild ox, and the chamois.

Deer
Elk

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.

Goat
Lamb
Moose
Ox
Sheep

Clean Fish- Leviticus 11:9, 10

Clean Birds- Deuteronomy 14:11-19

Bass

Chicken

Butterfish

Coot

Carp

Duck

Cod

Goose

Flounder

Grouse

Halibut

Pheasant

Herring

Pigeon

Perch

Quail

Pike

Turkey

Salmon
Smelt
Trout
Tuna

9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever


hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat.

Unclean Animals- Deuteronomy 14:4-6

Unclean Birds- Leviticus 11:20

Bear

Hawks

Pig

Eagle

Rabbit

Falcon
Seagulls
Owls
Raven
Stork

Unclean Fish & other Sea/Water Creatures- Leviticus 11:9, 10


Amphibians (frog and toad)
Crustaceans (crab, lobster, shrimp and prawns)
Shellfish (clams, oyster, scallop and mussel)
Scale-less fish (catfish, sturgeon, puffer fish, eel, shark & rays-not a true fish)
Squids & Octopus
Snail
Abalone, Limpet & Nautilus
Misc. Marine Invertebrates (sea cucumber, star fish, jelly fish, sea anemone)
Reptiles (alligator, crocodile, lizard, snake and turtle)
Marine Mammals (seal, walrus and sea lion)
Cetaceans (whale, porpoise and dolphin)

10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in
the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living
thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination
unto you:

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