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You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.
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For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
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You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.
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These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.
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Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof cleft in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
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Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.