1. YOU ARE the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead,
2. For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations on the earth.
3. You shall not eat anything that is abominable [to the Lord and so forbidden by Him].
4. These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5. The hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6. And every beast that parts the hoof and has it divided into two and brings up and chews the cud among the beasts you may eat.
7. Yet these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or have the hoof split in two: the camel, the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but divide not the hoof; they are unclean for you.
8. And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their dead bodies.