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 seh#
, 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 bath#
, 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
mothers 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.