Specific Bible Studies - Clean and Unclean Meats

Clean Items

• Beef
• Lamb
• Goat
• Hart
• Roebuck
• Deer
• Antelope
• Ox
• Mountain sheep
• Buffalo

• Albacore
• Anchovies
• Bluebill Sunfish
• Bluefish
• Bowfin
• Buffalofish
• Butterfish
• Carp
• Chubs
• Cod
• Crappies
• Flounder
• Fresh water mullet
• Groupers
• Grunts
• Haddock
• Hake
• Halibut
• Herring
• Kingfish
• Mackerel
• Mullet
• Pike
• Pilchards (sardines)
• Red snapper
• Redfish
• Salmon
• Sea Bass
• Smelt
• Striped Bass
• Trouts
• Tunas
• White Fish
• Yellow Perch

• Chicken
• Dove
• Duck
• Goose
• Grouse
• Guinea fowl
• Partridge
• Peafowl
• Pheasant
• Pigeon
• Prairie chicken
• Ptarmigan
• Quail
• Sagehen
• Sparrow (and other songbirds)
• Swan
• Teal
• Turkey

1. They have a crop or craw
2. they have a gizzard with a double lining
3. their feet have an elongated middle toe and a hind toe
4. their toes are spread so that they have three front toes on one side of a perch and the hind toe on the opposite side
5. they cannot be birds of prey
6. they catch food thrown to them while they are in the air but they first bring it to the ground and divide it, before eating it. Unclean birds eat food in the air or tear it apart on the ground and eat as they tear.

Unclean Items

• Pork (including lard)
• Ham
• Bacon
• Pork-sausage
• Rabbit
• Dogs
• Possums
• Snakes
• Rats
• Skunks
• Lizards
• Spiders
• Hyenas
• Horses
• Mice

• Abalones
• Bullheads
• Catfish
• Clams
• Crabs
• Crayfish
• Eel
• Lobster
• Mussel
• Octopus
• Oysters
• Scallop
• Shark
• Shrimp
• Snails
• Squid
• Sturgeon
• Swordfish
• Whale

• Roadrunners
• Woodpeckers
• Parrots
• Gulls
• all others not specifically listed as clean.