1. "Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.
2. For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.
3. You shall not eat the things that are unclean.
4. These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
5. the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.
6. Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.
7. But those which chew over again, but do not have a divided hoof, you must not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. Since these chew the cud, but do not have a divided the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
8. The pig also, since it has a divided hoof, but does not chew over again, shall be unclean. Their flesh shall not be eaten, and you shall not touch their carcasses.
9. These you shall eat out of all that dwells in the waters: whatever has fins and scales, you shall eat.
10. Whatever is without fins and scales, you shall not eat, for these are unclean.
11. All the clean birds, you shall eat.
12. You shall not eat those that are unclean: such as the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,
13. the crane, and the vulture, and the kite, according to their kind,