1. You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
2. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
3. You must not eat any forbidden thing.
4. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5. the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.
6. You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.