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1 You
are the children
of the LORD
your God. You
shall not cut
yourselves, nor
make any
baldness between your
eyes for the
dead.
2 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.
3 You
shall not eat any
abominable thing.
4 These are
the animals which you may eat: the
ox, the sheep,
the goat,
5 the deer, the
gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat,
the ibex, the antelope,
and the chamois.
6 Every animal
that parts the
hoof, and has
the hoof split
in two and
chews the cud,
among the animals, you may eat.
7 Nevertheless
these you shall
not eat of them
that chew the
cud, or of
those who have
the hoof split:
the camel,
the hare, and
the rabbit. Because
they chew the
cud but don’t part
the hoof, they
are unclean to
you.
8 The
pig, because it
has a split hoof
but doesn’t chew the
cud, is unclean
to you. You
shall not eat
their meat. You
shall not touch
their carcasses.
9 These
you may eat of
all that are
in the waters:
you may eat
whatever has fins
and scales.
10 You
shall not eat
whatever doesn’t have
fins and scales.
It is unclean
to you.
11 Of
all clean birds
you may eat.
12 But
these are they
of which you
shall not eat: the
eagle, the vulture,
the osprey,
13 the red kite, the falcon, the
kite of any kind,
14 every
raven of any
kind,
15 the
ostrich, the owl,
the seagull, the
hawk of any kind,
16 the
little owl, the
great owl,
the horned owl,
17 the pelican,
the vulture, the cormorant,
18 the stork,
the heron after its kind, the
hoopoe, and the bat.
19 All
winged creeping
things are unclean
to you. They
shall not be eaten.
20 Of
all clean birds
you may eat.
21 You
shall not eat of
anything that dies
of itself. You
may give it
to the foreigner
living among you
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.
22 You
shall surely tithe
all the increase
of your seed,
that which comes
out of the
field year by
year.
23 You
shall eat before
the LORD your
God, in the
place which
he chooses to cause
his name to
dwell, the tithe
of your grain,
of your new
wine, and of
your oil, and
the firstborn of
your herd and
of your flock;
that you may
learn to fear
the LORD your
God always.
24 If
the way is
too long for
you, so that
you are not
able to carry
it because the
place which the
LORD your God
shall choose to
set his name
there is too
far from you,
when the LORD
your God blesses
you,
25 then
you shall turn
it into money,
bind up the
money in your
hand, and shall
go to the
place which the
LORD your God
shall choose.
26 You
shall trade the
money for whatever
your soul desires:
for cattle, or
for sheep, or
for wine, or
for strong drink,
or for whatever
your soul asks
of you. You
shall eat there
before the LORD
your God, and
you shall rejoice,
you and your
household.
27 You
shall not forsake
the Levite who
is within your
gates, for he
has no portion
nor inheritance
with you.
28 At
the end of
every three years
you shall bring
all the tithe
of your increase
in the same
year, and
shall store it within
your gates.
29 The
Levite, because he
has no portion
nor inheritance
with you, as
well as the
foreigner living
among you, the
fatherless, and
the widow who are
within your gates
shall come, and
shall eat and be
satisfied; that
the LORD your
God may bless
you in all
the work of
your hand which
you do.