Deuteronomy 14:4

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

These are the beasts which ye shall eat. The specification of mammalia, whose flesh would be excellent, is full and particular here, because the Israelites were about to be settled in the land of promise, on the mountain pastures of which a portion of the tribes were already established, and where those beasts abounded.