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Deuteronomy 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 14
1 You are the children of the Lord, your God. Do not slash yourselves nor shave the front of your heads on account of the dead.[a] 2 You are a people who are holy to the Lord, your God, and the Lord has picked you out from among all the peoples on the earth to be a chosen people.
Clean and Unclean Food.[b] 3 You are not to eat any abominable thing.
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- Deuteronomy 14:1 A prohibition of some traditional pagan practices.
- Deuteronomy 14:3 One would “be a slave” of alien gods if one were to eat animals consecrated to them. The law prohibits this (Ex 34:15). The list includes some other animals that are excluded either by custom or for reasons of hygiene.