1. You are the Lord’s children. Don’t cut yourselves and don’t shave your foreheads for the dead,
2. because you are a people holy to the Lord your God. You are the ones whom the Lord selected to be his own, to be a treasured people out of all other people on earth.
3. Don’t eat any detestable thing.
4. Here’s a list of animals you are allowed to eat: ox, sheep, goat,
5. deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
6. You are also allowed to eat any animal with a divided hoof—the hoof being divided into two parts—and that rechews food among the various kinds of animals.
7. However, here’s a list of animals that either rechew food or have hooves divided in two parts that you are not allowed to eat:the camel, the hare, and the rock badger—because these rechew food but don’t have divided hoofs, they are off-limits for you;
8. and the pig—because it has a divided hoof but doesn’t rechew food, it’s off-limits for you.You may not eat these animals’ meat, and you must not touch their carcasses.
9. Here’s a list of the water animals you are allowed to eat: you can eat anything that has fins and scales.
10. But you aren’t allowed to eat anything that lacks scales or fins. These are off-limits for you.
11. You are allowed to eat any clean bird.
12. Here’s a list of those you are not allowed to eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13. the red kite, the black kite, and any kind of bird of prey,