1 “You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,
2 for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
3 “You must not eat any detestable thing.
4 These are the animals you may eat:the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer,the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope,and the mountain sheep.
6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.