1 ` Sons ye to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for 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 a holy people thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who on the face of the ground.

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 ` Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 ` this the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

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

5 h art, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;

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 every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat.

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 ` Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they 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 the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not up the cud, unclean it to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

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 ` This ye do eat of all that in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;

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

10 a nd anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it to you.

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

11 ` Any clean bird ye do eat;

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

12 a nd these they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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

13 a nd the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,

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

14 a nd every raven after its kind;

and every raven after his kind

15 a nd the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

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

16 t he owl, and the owl, and the swan,

the little owl and the great owl and the swan

17 a nd the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

and the pelican and the gier eagle and the cormorant

18 a nd the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;

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

19 a nd every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it to you; they are not eaten;

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

20 a ny clean fowl ye do eat.

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 ` Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell to a stranger; for a holy people thou to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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 ` Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;

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

23 a nd thou hast eaten before Jehovah thy God, in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, so that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days.

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 ` And when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it -- when the place is too far off from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, when Jehovah thy God doth bless thee; --

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 t hen thou hast given in money, and hast bound up the money in thy hand, and gone unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix;

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 a nd thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

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 A s to the Levite who within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.

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 three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed within thy gates;

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 come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

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.