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.