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| 1You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, | 1“You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. |
| 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. | 2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. |
| 3Do not eat any detestable thing. | 3“You shall not eat any abomination. |
| 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, | 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
| 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. | 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. |
| 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. | 6Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. |
| 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. | 7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. |
| 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. | 8And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. |
| 9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. | 9“Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. |
| 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean. | 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. |
| 11You may eat any clean bird. | 11“You may eat all clean birds. |
| 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, | 12But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, |
| 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, | 13the kite, the falcon of any kind; |
| 14any kind of raven, | 14every raven of any kind; |
| 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, | 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; |
| 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, | 16the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl |
| 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, | 17and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, |
| 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. | 18the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat. |
| 19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. | 19And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. |
| 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat. | 20All clean winged things you may eat. |
| 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. | 21“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. |
| 22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. | 22“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. |
| 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. | 23And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. |
| 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), | 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, |
| 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. | 25then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses |
| 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. | 26and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. |
| 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. | 27And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. |
| 28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, | 28“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. |
| 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. | 29And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. |
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