1. You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
2. For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3. You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4. These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5. The hare, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6. And every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.
7. Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have cloven hooves; as the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
8. And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean unto you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.
9. These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:
10. And whatsoever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean unto you.