Deuteronomy:14:1-21
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You are the children of the LORD your God ;
you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead .
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For you are a holy people to the LORD your God ,
and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself ,
a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth .
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You shall not eat any detestable thing .
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These are the animals which you may eat :
the ox ,
the sheep ,
the goat ,
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the deer ,
the gazelle ,
the roe deer ,
the wild goat ,
the mountain goat ,
the antelope ,
and the mountain sheep .
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And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves ,
having the hoof split into two parts ,
and that chews the cud ,
among the animals .
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Nevertheless ,
of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves ,
you shall not eat ,
such as these :
the camel ,
the hare ,
and the rock hyrax ;
for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves ;
they are unclean for you .
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Also the swine is unclean for you ,
because it has cloven hooves ,
yet does not chew the cud ;
you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses .
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These you may eat of all that are in the waters :
you may eat all that have fins and scales .
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And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat ;
it is unclean for you .
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All clean birds you may eat .
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But these you shall not eat :
the eagle ,
the vulture ,
the buzzard ,
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the red kite ,
the falcon ,
and the kite after their kinds ;
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every raven after its kind ;
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the ostrich ,
the short-eared owl ,
the sea gull ,
and the hawk after their kinds ;
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the little owl ,
the screech owl ,
the white owl ,
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the jackdaw ,
the carrion vulture ,
the fisher owl ,
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the stork ,
the heron after its kind ,
and the hoopoe and the bat .
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Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you ;
they shall not be eaten .
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You may eat all clean birds .
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You shall not eat anything that dies of itself ;
you may give it to the alien who is within your gates ,
that he may eat it ,
or you may sell it to a foreigner ;
for you are a holy people to the LORD your God . "
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother '
s milk .
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