Yahweh's Assembly in Yahshua - Questions & Answers

Q. In Deut. 12:22, it states one could eat something considered unclean, if the blood was eliminated from it. Then in Chapter 14 it states “You shall not eat any abominable thing.”

A. Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 delineate the clean and unclean. Notice that swine and jackals, dogs and vultures are not to be eaten, and we note they are an example of the garbage eaters of the world, as are shellfish. Carnivores, such as the cat family and raptors, are unclean. The animals and fowl that eat grasses and grain are suitable fare. But we also are to avoid eating the blood even of clean animals. (Read our booklet, Yahweh’s Food Laws.) There is a curse placed on those consuming unclean swine at the end of the age:
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 Yahweh, Isa. 66:17 AV.