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Ye are the
children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your
eyes for the dead.
02 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy
God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a
peculiar people unto himself, above all the
nations that are upon the earth.
03 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
04 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the
ox, the sheep, and the goat,
05 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow
deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the
wild ox, and the chamois.
06 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and
cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth
the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
07 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them
that chew the cud, or of them that divide the
cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the
hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
08 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof,
yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you:
ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their
dead carcase.
09 These ye shall eat of all that are in the
waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye
eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may
not eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat:
the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture
after his kind,
14 And every raven after his kind,
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the
swan,
17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant,
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18 And the stork, and the heron
after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth is
unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of
itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that
is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou
mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an
holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy
seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in
the place which he shall choose to place his name
there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of
thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of
thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that
thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be
too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall
choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy
God hath blessed thee:
25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind
up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the
place which the Lord thy God shall choose:
26 And thou shalt bestow that money for
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or
for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or
for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt
eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household,
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou
shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor
inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring
forth all the tithe of thine increase the same
year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor
inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy
gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee
in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
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