🛡️ Covenant Servants Clean vs Unclean Foods: Grocery & Eating Guide

Based on Leviticus 11 & Deuteronomy 14 (KJV)

✅ LAND ANIMALS – MUST HAVE BOTH:

• Split hooves AND chew the cud

You May Eat: Do NOT Eat:

• ✅ Cow (Beef) ❌ Pig (Pork, Ham, Bacon, Sausage, Pork Chop)

• ✅ Lamb ❌ Rabbit, Opossum

• ✅ Goat ❌ Horse

• ✅ Deer (Venison) ❌ Dog/Cat

📖 Leviticus 11:3-8

✅ SEAFOOD – MUST HAVE BOTH:

• Fins AND Scales

You May Eat: Do NOT Eat:

• ✅ Salmon ❌ Catfish (has fins, but no scales)

• ✅ Tilapia ❌ Shrimp

• ✅ Cod ❌ Lobster

• ✅ Sardines ❌ Crab, Octopus, Squid, Eel

• ✅ Whiting ❌ Clams, Oysters, Mussels

📖 Leviticus 11:9-12

✅ BIRDS – CLEAN BIRDS ONLY

Do not eat birds of prey or scavengers

You May Eat: Do NOT Eat:

• ✅ Chicken ❌ Owl,  Vulture

• ✅ Turkey ❌ Eagle, Seagull

• ✅ Quail ❌ Hawk, Crow

📖 Leviticus 11:13-19

✅ INSECTS – ONLY LOCUST TYPE

(If you’re brave 😅)

You May Eat: Do NOT Eat:

• ✅ Locust ❌ All other bugs (flies, beetles, roaches, ants)

• ✅ Grasshopper

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📖 Leviticus 11:20-23

🚫 OTHER UNCLEAN ITEMS

• ❌ Blood – No blood in food (rare/raw meat, blood sausage) 📖 Leviticus 17:10-14

• ❌ Fat – Do not eat excess fat or animal organs 📖 Leviticus 3:17

• ❌ Gelatin – Avoid unless fish-based or kosher-certified 📖 Acts 15:20

• ❌ Lard, pork enzymes, animal shortening in baked goods, candy, or processed food

🛒 QUICK CHECKLIST

If it doesn’t meet BOTH conditions, it’s unclean.

Item	Clean?	Why
Salmon	✅ Yes	Fins and scales
Catfish	❌ No	No scales
Lamb Chop	✅ Yes	Chews cud + split hoof
Pork Chop	❌ No	Swine is unclean
Shrimp	❌ No	No fins or scales
Turkey Bacon	✅ Yes	Only if made 100% from turkey
Gelatin candy	❌ No	Usually made from pork bones

💡 Pro Tip:

Always check the label. Hidden ingredients like gelatin, enzymes, or pork derivatives are common in candy, snacks, sauces, and baked goods.

🔥 Isaiah 66:17

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.