1. “You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
2. This is because you are different from other people. You belong to the Lord your God. From all the people in the world, the Lord chose you to be his own special people.
3. “Don’t eat anything that the Lord hates.
4. You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats,
5. deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild sheep, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep.
6. You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7. But don’t eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. So these animals are not a clean food for you.
8. And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don’t chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don’t eat any meat from pigs. Don’t even touch a pig’s dead body.
9. “You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales.