Bible Verses About Animals: Clean and unclean

Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.

These are the beastes, which ye shall eate, the beefe, the sheepe, and the goate,

The hart, and the roe buck, and the bugle, and the wilde goate, and the vnicorne, and the wilde oxe, and the chamois.

And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde, that shall ye eate.

But these ye shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely: ye camell, nor the hare, nor the cony: for they chewe the cudde, but deuide not ye hoofe: therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you:

Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.

These ye shall eate, of all that are in the waters: all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate.

And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.

Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:

But these are they, whereof ye shall not eate: the eagle, nor the goshawke, nor the osprey,

Nor the glead nor the kite, nor the vulture, after their kind,

Nor all kinde of rauens,

Nor the ostrich, nor the nightcrow, nor the semeaw, nor the hawke after her kinde,

Neither the litle owle, nor the great owle, nor the redshanke,

Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:

The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.

And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.

But of all cleane foules ye may eate.

And hee sawe heauen opened, and a certaine vessell come downe vnto him, as it had bene a great sheete, knit at the foure corners, and was let downe to the earth.

Wherein were all maner of foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.

And there came a voyce to him, Arise, Peter: kill, and eate.

But Peter sayd, Not so, Lord: for I haue neuer eaten any thing that is polluted, or vncleane.

And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

For euery creature of God is good, and nothing ought to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing.