| 1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For
thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to
be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face
of the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which
ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 the hart, and the gazelle,
and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the
chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven
in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of
them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney;
because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you.
8 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he
is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye
shall not touch.
9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and
scales may ye eat; 10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not
eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean birds ye may eat. 12 But these are they of which ye
shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 13 and the
glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14 and every raven
after its kind, 15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew,
and the hawk after its kind, 16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the
horned owl, 17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the
bat. 19 And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall
not be eaten. 20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it
unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou
mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy
God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh
forth from the field year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah
thy God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear
Jehovah thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that
thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which
Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God
shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the
money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose: 26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul
desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah
thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27 And the Levite
that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion
nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of
thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee,
and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy
gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may
bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.
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