Biblically Clean and Unclean Meat (Lev. 11 and Deut. 14)
A General List of Biblically Clean Meat: Antelope Bison Buffalo Caribou Cattle [Beef, Veal] Deer Reindeer Gazelle Giraffe Goat Hart Ibex Lamb Hogget Mutton Moose Ox Roebuck Sheep
A General List of Biblically Unclean Meat: Alligator Armadillo Badger Bat Bear Panda Beaver Caiman Camel Cats Cheetah Cougar Jaguar Leopard Lion Panther Tiger Crocodile Dogs Coyote Fox Hyena Jackal Wolf Elephant Frog Gorilla Groundhog Hippopotamus Horses Donkey/Ass Mule Onager Zebra Kangaroo Llama Lizards Mice Mole Monkey Baboon Chimpanzee Muskrat Newt Porcupine Possums Rabbit Raccoon Rats Rhinoceros Salamander Skunks Snakes Spiders Squirrels Swine Boar Hog Pig Peccary [Bacon, Pork, Pork-sausage, Ham, Lard] Toad Turtle Wallaby Weasel Wolverine
A General List of Biblically Clean Fish: (with Fins and Scales) Albacore or Crevalle or Horse Mackerel or Jack Alewives or Branch Herring or River Herring Anchovies Black Drum Bluebacks or Glut Herrings Bluebill Sunfish Bluefish Blue Runner or Hardtail Bonitos Boston Bluefish or Pollock Bowfin Buffalofish Butterfish Carp Chubs Bloater Longjaw Blackfin Cod Common Sucker or Fresh Water Mullet or White Sucker Crappies or Black Crappies or White Crappies Flounder Dab Gray Sole Lemon Sole Summer Flounder Winter Flounder Yellow Tail Frost Fish or Ice Fish or Smelt Groupers Black Grouper Gag Nassau Grouper Red Grouper Yellowfish Grouper Grunts White Grunts Yellow Grunts Gulf Pike or Robalo or Snook or Sergeant Haddock Hake Halibut Herring Lake Herring Sea Herring Kingfish Long Nose Sucker or Northern Sucker or Red Striped Sucker Mackerel Menhaden Mullet Muskeilunge or Jacks Pickerels or Jacks Pig Fish Pikes or Jacks Pompano Porgy Scup Red Drum Redfish Red Horse Sucker Redfin Red Snapper Salmon Chum Coho King Pink Red Sardine or Pilchards Sea Bass Shad Sheepshead Silver Hake or Whiting Silversides Spanish Mackerel Striped Bass Trouts Gray Sea Trouts Weakfish Lake Trout Sand Sea Trout White Sea Trout Spotted SeaTrout Tunas Bluefin Yellowfin Skipjack White Fish Yellow Perch
A General List of Biblically Unclean "Fish & Sea Foods": (without Fins and Scales) Abalones Bullheads Catfish Clams Conch Crabs Crayfish Crawfish Crawdad Cuttlefish Dolphin Otter Eel Jellyfish Limpet Lobster Marlin Mussel Octopus Oysters Paddlefish Porpoise Scallop Seal Shark Shrimp Snails Squid (Calamari) Stickleback Sturgeon Swordfish Walrus Whale
A General List of Biblically Clean Fowl: Chicken Dove Duck Goose Grouse Guinea Fowl Partridge Peafowl Pheasant Pigeon Prairie Chicken Ptarmigan Quail Sagehen Sparrow Teal Turkey And Other Song Birds
A General List of Biblically Unclean Fowl: Albatross Bittern Buzzard Condor Coot Cormorant Crane Crow Cuckoo Eagle Flamingo Grebe Grosbeak Gull Hawk Heron Kite Lapwing Loon Magpie Osprey Ostrich Owl Parrot Pelican Penguin Plover Rail Raven Roadrunner Sandpiper Seagull Stork Swallow Swift Vulture Water hen Woodpecker All others not specifically listed as clean.
A General List of Biblically Clean Insects: (with Wings see Lev. 11:20-22) Crickets Grasshoppers Katydid Locusts
(Most insects except a few in the locust family are unclean - see Lev. 11:23)
Jello, Marshmallows, etc. (usually contain pork-based gelatin), any saltine cracker that states it uses animal shortening (usually lard), and anything else that states it uses animal shortening.
The above is a general list, there are many clean and unclean meats not listed. The booklet "Is All Animal Flesh Good Food?" will give you a good understanding and characteristics of other clean and unclean meats, it is a good rule of thumb to follow.
IF IN DOUBT, AVOID ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED AS CLEAN!
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