TORAH ON KASHRUT   MITZVOT CITATIONS General precept explaining the dietary laws Lev. 11: 44, Deut. 14 :3 What can be eaten (in general), before and after the Flood Gen. 1: 29, 9: 3 Shall not eat the fruit of a tree planted for food in its first four years--three years for the tree, the fourth goes as an offering. Lev. 19: 23-25 Shall not eat blood. Gen. 9:4, Lev. 19: 26 Shall not eat of the new grain crop until a share is given as an offering. Lev. 23: 14 Fields and vineyards shall not be sown with a second kind of seed--the yield cannot be used; Cattle shall not mate with a different kind. Lev. 19: 19, Deut. 22: 9 Enumerates which land animals may or may not be eaten or touched. Deut. 14: 4-8, Lev. 11: 2-8, Lev. 11: 24-27, 29-30 Enumerates which fish may or may not be eaten or touched. Lev. 11: 9-12, Deut. 14: 9-10 Enumerates which birds (and faux birds) may or may not be eaten. Lev. 11: 13-19, Deut. 14: 11-17 Enumerates which winged insects may or may not be eaten. Lev. 11: 20-23, Deut. 14: 19-20 Objects contaminated by dead creatures and how to decontaminate them. Lev. 11: 32-38 Clean animals which have died and not be slaughtered specifically for food shall not be eaten. Lev. 11: 39-40 Swarming things shall not be eaten or touched. Lev. 11: 41-42 Fat that cannot be eaten. Lev. 7: 23-24 First fruits shall be give as an offering Ex. 23:19, 34: 26 Prohibition against boiling a kid in its mother's milk Ex. 23:19, 34: 26 Prohibition against taking a mother bird with her eggs or fledglings. Deut. 22: 6-7 Prohibition against slaughtering an animal on the same day as its young. Lev. 23: 28 Torah Glossary References BLUETHREAD HOME PAGE Resources A note on translations   2/16/98 © 1998 Rosemarie E. Falanga, Cy H. Silver