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You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
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You are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.
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Do not eat anything the Lord hates.
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These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,
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deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goats, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
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You may eat any animal that has a split hoof and chews the cud,
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but you may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they do not have split hoofs, so they are unclean for you.
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Pigs are also unclean for you; they have split hoofs, but they do not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.