“1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 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. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4
These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the
goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 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. 7
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. 8 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. 9 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, 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] any thing 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.”
(Deuteronomy 14:1-29 AV)
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