Bible Verses About Animals: Clean and unclean

`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

`this is the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;

and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts--it ye do eat.

`Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they are to you;

and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not bringing up the cud, unclean it is to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

`This ye do eat of all that are in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;

and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it is to you.

`Any clean bird ye do eat;

and these are they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,

and every raven after its kind;

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;

and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it is to you; they are not eaten;

any clean fowl ye do eat.

and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,

and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

and there is a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,