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Clean and Unclean Animals
(1) "YOU are the children of the LORD 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 the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a treasured people to himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.
(3) You shall not eat any abominable thing.
(4) These are the animals which YOU 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 mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.
(6) And every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud among the animals, that YOU may eat.
(7) Nevertheless these YOU shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean for YOU.
(8) And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean to YOU; YOU shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their dead carcasses.
(9) These YOU may eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales YOU may eat.
(10) And whatever does not have fins and scales YOU may not eat; it is unclean for YOU.
(11) YOU may eat all clean birds.
(12) But these YOU may not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the sea-eagle,
(13) and a bird of prey, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,
(14) and every raven after its kind,
(15) and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the owl, and the hawk after its 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.
Tithes of Divine Service
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.