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You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
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No disgusting thing may be your food.
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These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
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The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.
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Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.
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But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.