1You are sons to the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor shall you make a bald spot between your eyes for the dead.2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for a possession to him out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.3You shall not eat any abomination.4This is the animal that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the lamb, and the goat.5The deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain goat.6And every animal that divides the hoof and cleaves the cleft of two hooves, that brings up the cud among the animals—you may eat it.7Surely these you shall not eat from those that bring up the cud or from those that divide the hoof: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they bring up the cud but have not divided the hoof; they are unclean for you.8And the swine, because it divides the hoof but does not bring up the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses.9These you may eat from all that are in the water: whatever has fin and scale you may eat.10And all that has no fin and scale you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.11You may eat every clean bird.12And these you shall not eat from them: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture.13And the glede, the falcon, and the hawk of its kind.14And every raven of its kind.15The daughter of the ostrich, the ostrich, the gull, and the hawk of its kind.16The owl, the owl, and the chameleon.17The pelican, the carrion vulture, and the cormorant.18And the stork, the heron of its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.19And every swarm of the bird is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.20You may eat every clean bird.21You shall not eat any carcass. To the sojourner who is within your gates you may give it, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.