Chapter 14
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You are sons to the LORD your God. You shall not gash yourselves, nor shall you put baldness between your eyes for a dead body.
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For 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.
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You shall not eat any abomination.
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These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, the lambs, and the she-goats.
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Ram and gazelle and deer and wild goat and ibex and antelope and mountain sheep.
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And every animal that splits the hoof and chews the cud among the animals—you may eat them.
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But 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.
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And 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.
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These you shall eat from all that are in the waters: all that has fins and scales you shall eat.
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And everything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Every ritually clean bird you shall eat.
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And these are what you shall not eat from them: the eagle and the peres and the white vulture.
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and the osprey and the falcon and the kite according to its kind.
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and every raven according to its kind;
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and the daughter of the ostrich and the tachmas and the shachaf and the netz according to its kind.
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the cup and the owl and the screech owl;
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and the pelican, the desert owl, and the carrion vulture.
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and the stork and the heron according to its kind, and the cuckoo and the bat.
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And every swarming thing of the birds is unclean for you; they shall not eat it.
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You may eat every ritually clean bird.
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You 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.