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You are children of God, your God, so don't mutilate your bodies or shave your heads in funeral rites for the dead.
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You only are a people holy to God, your God; God chose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished personal treasure.
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Don't eat anything abominable.
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These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,
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deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep -
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any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud.
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But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven hoof - that makes them ritually unclean.
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And pigs: Don't eat pigs - they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass.
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This is what you may eat from the water: anything that has fins and scales.