1. “You are the children of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead,
2. for you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim, and יהוה has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3. “Do not eat whatever is abominable.
4. “These are the living creatures which you do eat: ox, sheep, and goat,
5. deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat, and antelope, and mountain sheep.
6. “And every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the cud, among the beasts, you do eat.
7. “But of those chewing the cud or those having a split hoof completely divided, you do not eat, such as these: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do not have a split hoof, they are unclean for you.
8. “And the pig is unclean for you, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud. You do not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.
9. “These you do eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you do eat.
10. “And whatever does not have fins and scales you do not eat, it is unclean for you.
11. “Any clean bird you do eat,