Deuteronomy 14:4
These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
In Context
3You shall not eat the things that are unclean.
5the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2Say to the sons of Israel: These are the animals that you ought to eat out of all the living things of the earth.
1 Kings 4:23ten fattened oxen, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred rams, aside from the venison of stags, roe deer, and gazelles, and fattened poultry.
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 →