Bible Verses About Animals: Clean and unclean

"You are not to eat anything disgusting.

The animals which you may eat are: ox, sheep, goat,

deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx and mountain sheep.

Any animal that has a separate hoof that is completely divided and also chews the cud, these animals you may eat.

But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof. For example, the camel, the hare and the coney are unclean for you because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof;

while the pig is unclean for you because, although it has a separate hoof, it doesn't chew the cud. You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses.

"Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat.

But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.

"You may eat any clean bird;

but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,

kites, any kind of buzzard,

any kind of raven,

ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

little owls, great owls, horned owls,

pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.

"All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;

but all clean flying creatures you may eat.

in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!”

But Kefa said, “No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif.”

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.”

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods which God created to be eaten with thanksgiving by those who have come to trust and to know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing received with thanksgiving needs to be rejected,