1You are sons to the LORD your God. You shall not gash yourselves, nor shall you put baldness between your eyes for a dead body.2For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be for himself a treasured possession people from all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.3You shall not eat any abomination.4These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, the lambs, and the she-goats.5Ram and gazelle and deer and wild goat and ibex and antelope and mountain sheep.6And every animal that splits the hoof and chews the cud among the animals—you may eat them.7But you shall not eat from those that chew the cud or those that split the hoof: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew the cud but do not split the hoof—they are ritually unclean to you.8And the pig, because it splits the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. From their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch.9These you shall eat from all that are in the waters: all that has fins and scales you shall eat.10And everything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.11Every ritually clean bird you shall eat.12And these are what you shall not eat from them: the eagle and the peres and the white vulture.13and the osprey and the falcon and the kite according to its kind.14and every raven according to its kind;15and the daughter of the ostrich and the tachmas and the shachaf and the netz according to its kind.16the cup and the owl and the screech owl;17and the pelican, the desert owl, and the carrion vulture.18and the stork and the heron according to its kind, and the cuckoo and the bat.19And every swarming thing of the birds is unclean for you; they shall not eat it.20You may eat every ritually clean bird.21You shall not eat any carcass. You shall give it to the stranger who is in your gates, and he will eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.