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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do not eat any detestable thing. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You may eat any clean bird. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14any kind of raven, |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17the desert owl, the osprey, 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] | 19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away), |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
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