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Instructions About Clean and Unclean Meat

11 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and told them to tell the Israelites these things.

These are the animals that you may eat:

Of all the mammals on land, you may eat any that have hoofs with splits in the hoofs and that rechew their food.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:3 Or bring up the cud. The Hebrew term refers to animals that rechew their food a second time after swallowing it and then regurgitating it or excreting it. This list is not limited to true ruminants.