1. You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
2. You are holy people. You belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.
3. Do not eat anything the Lord hates.
4. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goats,
5. deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goats, ibex, antelope and mountain sheep.
6. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof and chews the cud.
7. But you may not eat camels, rabbits or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but their feet are not divided. So they are unclean for you.
8. Pigs are also unclean for you. They have split hooves, but they do not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.
9. There are many things that live in the water. You may eat anything that has fins and scales.
10. But do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
11. You may eat any clean bird.