Deuteronomy 14:5
deer, gazelles, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep.
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In Context
4These are the animals that you are allowed to eat: cattle, sheep, goats,
6You can eat any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:15Of course you can slaughter and eat meat wherever you are, anytime you want, depending on how much the Lord your God has blessed you. All of you, whether you're ceremonially clean or not, can it eat it just like you would a gazelle or a deer,
1 Kings 5:3“As you know, my father David was not able to build a Temple to honor the Lord his God because of the wars fought against him from every direction, until the Lord had conquered his enemies.
Isaiah 51:20Your children have collapsed, lying in every street like antelopes caught in a trap. They experienced the full anger of the Lord, the condemnation of your God.
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 →