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Chapter 14
1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
2 Because you are a holy people to the Lord your God: and he chose you to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.
3 Eat not the things that are unclean.
4 These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
6 Every beast that divides the hoof in two parts, and chews the cud, you shall eat.
7 But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
8 The swine also, because it divides the hoof, but chews not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
9 These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
10 Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.
12 The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,
13 The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:
14 And all of the raven's kind:
15 And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
16 The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
18 The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.
19 Every thing that creeps, and has little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.
20 All that is clean, you shall eat.
21 But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within your gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because you are the holy people of the Lord your God. you shall not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
22 Every year you shall set aside the tithes of all your fruits that the earth brings forth,
23 And you shall eat before the Lord your God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of your corn, and your wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herds and your sheep: that you may learn to fear the Lord your God at all times.
24 But when the way and the place which the Lord your God shall choose, are far off, and he has blessed you, and you can not carry all these things thither,
25 You shall sell them all, and turn them into money, and shall carry it in your hand, and shall go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
26 And you shall buy with the same money whatsoever pleases you, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that your soul desires: and you shall eat before the Lord your God, and shall feast, you and your house:
27 And the Levite that is within your gates, beware you forsake him not, because he has no other part in your possession.
28 The third year you shall separate another tithe of all things that grow to you at that time, and shall lay it up within your gates.
29 And the Levite that has no other part nor possession with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within your gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands that you shall do.