1. “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
2. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3. “You shall not eat any abomination.
4. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5. the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.