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"You are the people of ADONAI your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead,
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because you are a people set apart as holy for ADONAI your God. ADONAI your God has chosen you to be his own unique treasure out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
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"You are not to eat anything disgusting.
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The animals which you may eat are: ox, sheep, goat,
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deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx and mountain sheep.
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Any animal that has a separate hoof that is completely divided and also chews the cud, these animals you may eat.
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But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof. For example, the camel, the hare and the coney are unclean for you because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof;
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while the pig is unclean for you because, although it has a separate hoof, it doesn't chew the cud. You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses.
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"Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat.
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But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.
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"You may eat any clean bird;
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but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,
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kites, any kind of buzzard,
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ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,
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little owls, great owls, horned owls,
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pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,
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storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.
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"All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;
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but all clean flying creatures you may eat.
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"You are not to eat any animal that dies naturally; although you may let a stranger staying with you eat it, or sell it to a foreigner; because you are a holy people for ADONAI your God. "You are not to boil a young animal in its mother's milk.