Deuteronomy 14:4
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
World English Bible Classic
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 any abominable thing.
5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
1 Kings 4:23ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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 →