Clean and Unclean Food
1 You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
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for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
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Do not eat any detestable thing.
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These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
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You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
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However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.
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The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
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Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.
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But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
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You may eat any clean bird.
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But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
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the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,