Clean and Unclean Meat
3You shall not eat any abominable thing. detestable
4These are the beasts which youp shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5The hart and the roebuck and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg and the wild ox, and the chamois. stag; gazelle; antelope; mountain sheep
6And every beast that parts the hoof, and splits the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that youp shall eat.
7Nevertheless these youp 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 to youp.
8And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to youp: youp shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. meat
9These youp shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall youp eat:
10And whatsoever has not fins and scales youp may not eat; it is unclean to youp.
11Of all clean birds youp shall eat.
12But these are they of which youp shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, bearded vulture
13And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind, buzzard; falcon
14And every raven after its kind,
15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after its kind, gull
16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, carrion vulture
18And the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to youp: they shall not be eaten. teeming, swarming
20But of all clean fowls youp may eat.
21Youp shall not eat of any thing that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk. boil
Tithing Principles
22You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
23And you shall eat before the Lord your God in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
24And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the Lord your God shall choose to set His name there, when the Lord your God has blessed you:
25Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose:
26And you shall bestow that money for whatsoever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household, desires
27And the Levite that is inside your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up inside your gates: deposit it
29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are inside 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.
