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Animals: Ordained As Food for Man Genesis 9:2, 3

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. / Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

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Animals: Ordained As Food for Man Leviticus 11:3, 9, 21, 22

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. / Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales. / However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

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Animals: Ordained As Food for Man Deuteronomy 14:4–6, 9, 11, 20

These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat, / the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. / You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

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