1 “ You are the sons of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or cut the hair from your foreheads because of the dead.

¶ Ye are the sons of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness over your eyes for the dead.

2 F or you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own nation out of all the nations on the earth.

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

3 “ Do not eat any hated thing.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 T hese are the animals you may eat: the bull, the sheep, the goat,

These are the animals which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 t he deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the hart and the roebuck and the buffalo and the wild goat and the unicorn (rhinoceros) and the wild ox and the mountain goat,

6 A nd you may eat any animal that has a parted foot divided in two and that chews its food again.

and every animal that parts the hoof and cleaves the cleft into two claws and chews the cud among the beasts that ye shall eat.

7 B ut you must not eat of those that chew their food again or have a divided foot: the camel, the rabbit and the rock badger. For though they eat their food again, they do not have a divided foot. They are unclean to you.

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you;

8 A nd do not eat the pig, because it has a divided foot but does not chew its food again. It is unclean for you. Do not eat any of their flesh or touch their dead bodies.

and the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead carcase.

9 “ Of all that are in the water, you may eat anything that has fins and scales.

These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat,

10 B ut do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.

but whatever does not have fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 “ You may eat any clean bird.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

12 B ut these are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray

13 t he red kite, the falcon, every kind of kite,

and the glede and the kite and the vulture after his kind

14 e very kind of raven,

and every raven after his kind

15 t he ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, every kind of hawk,

and the owl and the night hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kind

16 t he little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the little owl and the great owl and the swan

17 t he pelican, the vulture that eats dead flesh, the cormorant,

and the pelican and the gier eagle and the cormorant

18 t he stork, every kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

and the stork and the heron after her kind and the lapwing and the bat.

19 A nd all flying bugs are unclean for you. Do not eat them.

And every serpent that flies shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

20 B ut you may eat any clean bird.

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 “ Do not eat anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger in your town, so he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a person from another land. For you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. “Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. The Law of the Tenth Part

Ye shall not eat of any thing that died of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it, or thou may sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother’s milk.

22 “ Be sure to give a tenth part to the Lord of all you plant that comes from your field every year.

¶ Thou shalt without fail tithe all the increase of thy seed that thy field brings forth each year.

23 B efore the Lord your God, at the place He chooses to put His name, you may eat the tenth part of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first-born of your cattle and your flock. Then you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose for his name to dwell, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy cows and of thy sheep, that thou may learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

24 I f the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far away for you to bring the tenth part of all the good things you have received,

And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, or if the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God has blessed thee,

25 y ou should trade it for money. Then tie the money in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

then shalt thou sell it for money and bind up the money in thy hand and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

26 Y ou may spend the money for whatever your heart may desire, for bulls, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And there you and those of your house may eat before the Lord and be full of joy.

and thou shalt give that money for whatever thy soul desires, for cows or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatever thy soul desires; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.

27 D o not stop caring for the Levite who is in your town for he has no share of what is given to you.

And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that dwells within thy gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 “ At the end of every third year you should bring the tenth part of that year’s grain into your towns.

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 A nd the Levite who has no share of what is given to you, and the stranger, and the child without parents, and the woman whose husband has died, who are in your towns, may come and eat and be filled. Then the Lord your God will bring good to you in all the work done by your hands.

And the Levite, who has no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who 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 thy hands which thou doest.