clean animals
Biblically edible creatures
Clean animals, in biblical and Jewish dietary law, are those permitted for human consumption.
The category includes mammals that both chew cud and have cloven hooves (cattle, sheep, goats) and fish with fins and scales.
Unclean animals—pigs, shellfish, certain birds—are forbidden.
The distinction shapes kosher dietary practice and appears in discussions of ancient Near Eastern religion.
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
- halalPermitted under Islamic law
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
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- halalhalal, halal meat, halal chicken, halal beef, halal products
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Creatures forbidden by scripture
swine · pigs · shellfish · crustaceans · shrimp
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Harmful small animals
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