FORBIDDEN PRACTICES

14 “You are sons of the Lord your God;a do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your headA on behalf of the dead,b 2 for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possessionc out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOODS

3 “You must not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat:

oxen, sheep, goats,

5 deer, gazelles, roe deer,

wild goats, ibexes, antelopes,

and mountain sheep.

6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.B 7 But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

camels, hares, and hyraxes,

though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—

they are unclean for you;

8 and pigs, though they have hooves, they do not chew the cud—

they are unclean for you.

Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.d