For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 14:2 in context
Deuteronomy 14:1–5
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You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes 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 his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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You shall not eat any abominable 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 roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
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