What kind of animals can you eat?
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Every kind of animal is allowed for food

Genesis 9:3 View context

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.


1 Corinthians 10:25 View context

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake:


Romans 14:14 View context

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.

Certain kinds of animals are prohibited for food

Deuteronomy 14:7-8 View context

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it [is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

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