[1] You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves,
nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. [2] For you are a
holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people
for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
[3] You shall not eat any abominable thing. [4] These are the animals which
you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, [5] the hart, and the
gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the gazelle, and the
antelope, and the chamois. [6] Every animal that parts the hoof, and has
the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may
you eat. [7] Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the
cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the
rabbit; because they chew the cud but don`t part the hoof, they are unclean
to you. [8] The pig, because he doesn`t part the hoof but doesn`t chew the
cud, he is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their
carcasses you shall not touch. [9] These you may eat of all that are in the
waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; [10] and whatever doesn`t
have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. [11] Of all
clean birds you may eat. [12] But these are they of which you shall not
eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, [13] and the red kite,
and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, [14] and every raven after its
kind, [15] and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the
hawk after its kind, [16] the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned
owl, [17] and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, [18] and the
stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. [19] All
winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. [20] Of
all clean birds you may eat. [21] You shall not eat of anything that dies
of itself: you may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, that
he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people
to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother`s milk. [22] You
shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth
from the field year by year. [23] You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in
the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the
tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn
of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God
always. [24] If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to
carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
[25] then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand,
and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: [26] and you
shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of
you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice,
you and your household. [27] The Levite who is within your gates, you shall
not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. [28] At
the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your
increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: [29] and
the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the
sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates,
shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless
you in all the work of your hand which you do.
