The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 14, Verse 12

For thou [art] an 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.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it [is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.

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[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

King James Version

But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

American Standard Version

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,

New English Translation

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

World English Bible

But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,

And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

And every raven after his kind,

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.

Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.