Deuteronomy 14:4
These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
In Context
3No disgusting thing may be your food.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.
1 Kings 4:23Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:2-22
What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and… Read the whole commentary →