1. "You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.
2. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3. "You shall not eat any detestable thing.
4. These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5. the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
6. Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
7. Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.