1. You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2. For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3. You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4. These are the animals which 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 chamois.
6. Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
7. Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
8. The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.
9. These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.
10. You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
11. Of all clean birds you may eat.
12. But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,