Animals Not To Eat

Category: City Pastor's Teachings

1. Camel (Leviticus 11:4-8): The camel chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is ceremonially unclean for you.
2. The Hyrax: chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean
3. The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean

You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses. They are ceremonially unclen for you.

Water Animals To Eat (Leviticus 11:9-12)

Any animal from water that has fins and scales, whether taken from salt water or from streams can be eaten.

But you must never eat animals from waters that does not have both fins and scales. They are detestable to you. This applies to both little creatures that live in shallow water and to all creatures that live in deep water.

Birds Not To Eat (Leviticus 11:13)

1. The griffon vulture
2. The bearded vulture
3. The black vulture
4. Falcons of all kinds 
5. Ravens of all kinds
6. Eagle owl
7. Short-eared owl
8. Short-eared owl
9. Seagull
10. Hawks of all kinds
11. Little owl
12. Ban owl
13. Desert owl
14. Egyptian vulture
15. Stork
16. Herons of all kinds
17. Hoopoe 
18. Bat   

Insects Not To Eat

1. Wing insects that walk along the ground
2. You may not eat wing insects that walk along the ground and have jointed legs so they can jump

You Can Eat

1. Locusts
2. Bald locusts
3. Crickets
4. Grasshoppers        

All other winged insects that walk along the ground are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:27, Of all animals that walk in all fours, those that have paws are unclean. If you touch the carcass of such an animal, you will be defiled.

You must not eat small animals that scurry along the ground, like

• Mole rat
• The rat
• Large lizards of all kinds
• Common lizards
• Small lizards
• Chameleon                

All small animals that scurry along the ground are detestable and you must never eat them. This includes all animals that slither along their bellies, as well as those with four legs and those with mny feet. All such animals that scurry along the ground are detestable nd you must never eat them.