Deut 14
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You are the children of YHWH your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any
baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and YHWH has chosen you to be a people
for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
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You shall not eat any abominable thing.
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These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
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the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and
the antelope, and the chamois.
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And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the
cud, among the beasts, that may you eat.
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Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have
the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud
but part not the hoof, they are unclean to you.
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And the swine, because he parts the hoof but chews not the cud, he is unclean to you:
of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may
you eat;
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and whatever has not fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Of all clean birds you may eat.
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But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and
the ospray,
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and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
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and every raven after its kind,
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and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
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the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
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and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
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and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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And all winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
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Of all clean birds you may eat.
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You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner
that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner:
for you are a holy people to YHWH your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother`s
milk.
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You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from
the field year by year.
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And you shall eat before YHWH 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 firstlings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear YHWH
your God always.
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And 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 YHWH your God shall choose, to set his name there,
when YHWH your God shall bless you;
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then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go
to the place which YHWH your God shall choose:
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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 YHWH your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
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And the Levite that is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no
portion nor inheritance with you.
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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:
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and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates, shall come, and shall
eat and be satisfied; that YHWH your God may bless you in all the work of your hand
which you do.