1. You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
2. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
3. You must not eat any forbidden thing.
4. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5. the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.
6. You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7. However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
8. Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
9. These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,