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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your foreheads on account of the dead, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the peoples of the earth." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"You must not eat any detestable food. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You may eat every animal with a divided hoof—those with split cloven hooves—that chews the cud. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7However, you must not eat these animals that chew the cud or have a divided hoof: the camel, hare, and rock badger. Even though they chew the cud, their hooves are not divided. Therefore they are unclean for you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And also the pig, because even though its hoof is divided, it does not chew the cud. It is therefore unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or even touch their carcasses. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"You may choose to eat from these creatures in the water: you may eat anything with fin and scale, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10but you may not eat anything without fin and scale, since it is unclean to you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"You may eat all clean birds. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But you must not eat from any of these: the eagle, vulture, osprey, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13buzzard, any kind of kite, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14any kind of raven, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15the ostrich, night hawk, seagull, any kind of falcon, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you. They must not be eaten. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You may eat every bird that is clean. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"You must not eat any carcass. But you may give it to the alien in your cities so he may eat it or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Be sure to tithe annually from everything you plant that yields a harvest in the field. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Then in the presence of the LORD your God, in the place where he'll choose to establish his name, you may consume the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your livestock and flock, so that you'll learn to revere the LORD your God all your life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now the way may be distant from you, so that you are unable to transport your tithe because you have been blessed by the LORD your God and the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name may be distant from you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25In that case, convert it into cash, secure the money, and then bring it to the place where the LORD will choose. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You may spend the money to your heart's content to buy livestock, flocks, wine, strong drink, and whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"But you must not forget the descendant of Levi in your town because there is no tribal allotment for him as there is for you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Every third year, bring all the tithes of your produce of that year and store it in your cities |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29so the descendants of Levi—who have no tribal allotment as you do—foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come, eat, and be satisfied. That way, the LORD your God shall bless you in everything you do." |
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