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;