Deuteronomy:14

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* Ye are the children of the Lord your God : ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead . * For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God , and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth . * Ye shall not eat any abominable thing . * These are the beasts which ye shall eat ; the calf of the herd , and lamb of the sheep , and kid of the goats ; * the stag , and doe , and pygarg , and (note :)Or , buffalo (:note ) wild goat , and camelopard . * Every beast that divides the hoofs , and makes claws of two divisions , and that chews the cud among beasts , these ye shall eat . * And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud , and of those that divide the hoofs , and make distinct claws ; the camel , and the hare , and the rabbit ; because they chew the cud , and do not divide the hoof , these are unclean to you . * And as for the swine , because he divides the hoof , and makes claws of the hoof , yet he chews not the cud , he is unclean to you ; ye shall not eat of their flesh , ye shall not touch their dead bodies . * And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water , ye shall eat all that have fins and scales . * And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat ; they are unclean to you . * Ye shall eat every clean bird . * And these of (note :)i . e . birds (:note ) them ye shall not eat ; the eagle , and the ossifrage , and the sea-eagle , * and the vulture , and the kite and the like to it , * and every raven , and its kind * and the sparrow , and the owl , and the seamew , * and the heron , and the swan , and the stork , * and the cormorant , and the hawk , and its like , and the hoopoe , and the raven , * and the pelican , and the (note :)Or , heron (:note ) diver and the like to it , and the Or , flamingo red-bill and the bat . * All winged animals that creep are unclean to you ; ye shall not eat of them . * Ye shall eat every clean bird . * Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself ; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it , or thou shalt sell it to a stranger , because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God . Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother ’s milk . * Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed , the fruit of thy field year by year . * And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there ; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine , and of thine oil , the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock , that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always . * And if the journey be too far for thee , and thou art not able to bring them , because the place is far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there , because the Lord thy God will bless thee ; * then thou shalt sell them for money , and thou shalt take the money in thy hands , and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose . * And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire , for oxen or for sheep , or for wine , or thou shalt lay it out on strong drink , or on whatsoever thy soul may desire , and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God , and thou shalt rejoice and thy house , * and the Levite that is in thy cities , because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee . * After three years thou shalt bring out all the tithes of thy fruits , in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy cities . * And the Levite shall come , because he has no part or lot with thee , and the stranger , and the orphan , and the widow which is in thy cities ; and they shall eat and be filled , that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do .

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