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.
1
"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
2
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
4
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5
the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.
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