Deuteronomy:14

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* Ye are the children of the Lord your God . Ye shall not cut yourselues , nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead . * For thou [art ] an holy people unto the LORD thy God , and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a (note :)Therefore you should not follow the superstition of the Gentiles .(:note ) peculiar people unto himself , above all the nations that [are ] upon the earth . * Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio . * * The hart , and the roe buck , and the bugle , and the wilde goate , and the vnicorne , &amp ; the wilde oxe , and the chamois . * And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe , and cleaueth the clift into two clawes , and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde , that shall ye eate . * But these ye shall not eate , of them that chew the cud , and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely : ye camell , nor the hare , nor the cony : for they chewe the cudde , but deuide not ye hoofe : therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you : * Also the swine , because he deuideth the hoofe , and cheweth not the cud , shalbe vncleane vnto you : ye shal not eate of their flesh , nor touch their dead carkeises . * These ye shall eate , of all that are in the waters : all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate . * And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales , ye shall not eate : it shall be vncleane vnto you . * Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate : * But these are they , whereof ye shall not eate : the egle , nor the goshawke , nor the osprey , * Nor the glead nor the kite , nor the vulture , after their kind , * Nor all kinde of rauens , * Nor the ostrich , nor the nightcrow , nor the semeaw , nor the hawke after her kinde , * Neither the litle owle , nor the great owle , nor the redshanke , * Nor the pellicane , nor the swanne , nor the cormorant : * The storke also , and the heron in his kinde , nor the lapwing , nor the backe . * And euery creeping thing that flieth , shall be vncleane vnto you : it shall not be eaten . * But of all cleane foules ye may eate . * Ye shall not eat [of ] any thing that (note :)Because their blood was not shed , but remains in them .(:note ) dieth of itself : thou shalt give it unto the Who is not of your religion . stranger that [is ] in thy gates , that he may eat it ; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien : for thou [art ] an holy people unto the LORD thy God . Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother 's milk . * Thou shalt truly (note :)The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites , who had no inheritance .(:note ) tithe all the increase of thy seed , that the field bringeth forth year by year . * And thou shalt eate before the Lorde thy God (in the place which he shall chose to cause his Name to dwell there ) the tithe of thy corne , of thy wine , and of thine oyle , and the first borne of thy kine and of thy sheepe , that thou maiest learne to feare the Lord thy God alway . * And if the way be too long for thee , so that thou art not able to carry it ; [or ] if the place be too far from thee , which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there , (note :)When he shall give thee abilities .(:note ) when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee : * Then shalt thou make it in money , and take the money in thine hand , and goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chose . * And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after , for oxen , or for sheep , or for wine , or for strong drink , or for whatsoever thy soul desireth : (note :)After the Priest has received the Lord 's part .(:note ) and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God , and thou shalt rejoice , thou , and thine household , * And the Leuite that is within thy gates , shalt thou not forsake : for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee . * At the end of three years thou shalt (note :)Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites , these were laid up in store for the poor .(:note ) bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year , and shalt lay [it ] up within thy gates : * Then ye Leuite shall come , because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee , and the stranger , and the fatherlesse , and the widowe , which are within thy gates , and shall eate , and be filled , that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest .

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