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Clean and Unclean Food
You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Do not eat any detestable thing.
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.
However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.
Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.
The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.
Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.
“These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.
But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,
the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;
the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.
Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien 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 the Lord your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithes
Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.
Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.
Tithing Principles
“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.
“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.
Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away),
But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you,
then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.
then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.
Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice.
And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,
“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates.
so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.