14 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 anything 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.