1. “You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.
2. You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.
3. “Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean.
12-18. But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; and bats.