1. You are the children of the Lord your God. Don't cut yourselves to honor the dead. Don't shave the front of your heads to honor them.
2. You are a holy nation. The Lord your God has set you apart for himself. He has chosen you to be his special treasure. He chose you out of all of the nations on the face of the earth.
3. Don't eat anything the Lord hates.
4. Here are the only animals you can eat. You can eat oxen, sheep, goats,
5. deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild goats, ibexes, antelope and mountain sheep.
6. You can eat any animal that has hoofs that are separated completely in two. But it must also chew the cud.