Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. ] That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.
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You are the LORD's children. Don't cut yourselves and don't shave your foreheads for the dead,
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because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You are the ones whom the LORD selected to be his own, to be a treasured people out of all other people on earth.