<P> Kosher animals are animals that comply with the regulations of kashrut and are considered kosher foods . These dietary laws ultimately derive from various passages in the Torah with various modifications, additions and clarifications added to these rules by Halakha . Various other animal - related rules are contained in the 613 commandments . </P> <P> Leviticus 11: 3 - 8 and Deuteronomy 14: 4 - 8 both give the same general set of rules for identifying which land animals (Hebrew: בהמות Behemoth) are ritually clean . According to these, anything that "chews the cud" and has a completely split hoof is ritually clean, but those animals that only chew the cud or only have cloven hooves are unclean . </P> <P> Both documents explicitly list four animals as being ritually impure: </P>

Animals that part the hoof and chew the cud
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