Bible Verses About Animals: Clean and unclean

Eat not the things that are unclean.

These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

And all of the raven's kind:

And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.

Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to the earth:

Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth and fowls of the air.

And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.

But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.

And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: