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"You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.
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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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"You shall not eat any detestable thing.
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These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
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And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.
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Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.
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Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.
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"These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.
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And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
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"All clean birds you may eat.
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But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
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the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;
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every raven after its kind;
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the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds;