Improper Mourning
1 “Youarethe children of theLordyour God;you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.
2 For youarea holy people to theLordyour God, and theLordhas chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples whoareon the face of the earth.
Clean and Unclean Meat
3 “You shall not eat any detestable thing.
4 Thesearethe animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts,andthatchews the cud, among the animals.
7 Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat,suchasthese: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; theyareunclean for you.
8 Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yetdoesnotchewthe cud; you shall not eat their fleshor touch their dead carcasses.
9 “These you may eat of all thatarein the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.
10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; itisunclean for you.
11 “All clean birds you may eat.
12 But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
13 the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;
14 every raven after its kind;
15 the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;
16 the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,
17 the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,
18 the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
19 “Alsoevery creeping thing that flies is unclean for you;they shall not be eaten.
20 “You may eat all clean birds.
21 “You shall not eat anything that diesofitself;you may give it to the alien whoiswithin your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner;for youarea holy people to theLordyour God.
# “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithing Principles
22 “You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.
23 And you shall eat before theLordyour God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, ofthe firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear theLordyour God always.
24 But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carrythetithe, orif the place where theLordyour God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when theLordyour God has blessed you,
25 then you shall exchangeitfor money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which theLordyour God chooses.
26 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 theLordyour God, and you shallrejoice, you and your household.
27 You shall not forsake theLevite whoiswithin your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28 “At the end ofeverythird year you shall bring out thetithe of your produce of that year and storeitup within your gates.
29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow whoarewithin your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that theLordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.