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You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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You shall not eat any abominable thing.
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These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
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the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the gazelle, and the antelope, and the chamois.
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Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
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Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
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The pig, because he doesn't part the hoof but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
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and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Of all clean birds you may eat.