Deuteronomy:14

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* "You are the children of the LORD your God ; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead . * For you are a holy people to the LORD your God , and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself , a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth . * "You shall not eat any detestable thing . * These are the animals which you may eat : the ox , the sheep , the goat , * the deer , the gazelle , the roe deer , the wild goat , the mountain goat , the antelope , and the mountain sheep . * And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves , having the hoof split into two parts , and that chews the cud , among the animals . * Nevertheless , of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves , you shall not eat , such as these : the camel , the hare , and the rock hyrax ; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves ; they are unclean for you . * Also the swine is unclean for you , because it has cloven hooves , yet does not chew the cud ; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses . * "These you may eat of all that are in the waters : you may eat all that have fins and scales . * And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat ; it is unclean for you . * "All clean birds you may eat . * But these you shall not eat : the eagle , the vulture , the buzzard , * the red kite , the falcon , and the kite after their kinds ; * every raven after its kind ; * the ostrich , the short-eared owl , the sea gull , and the hawk after their kinds ; * the little owl , the screech owl , the white owl , * the jackdaw , the carrion vulture , the fisher owl , * the stork , the heron after its kind , and the hoopoe and the bat . * "Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you ; they shall not be eaten . * "You may eat all clean birds . * "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself ; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates , that he may eat it , or you may sell it to a foreigner ; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God . "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother 's milk . * "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year . * And you shall eat before the LORD your God , in the place where He chooses to make His name abide , the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil , of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks , that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always . * But if the journey is too long for you , so that you are not able to carry the tithe , or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you , when the LORD your God has blessed you , * then you shall exchange it for money , take the money in your hand , and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses . * 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 the LORD your God , and you shall rejoice , you and your household . * You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates , for he has no part nor inheritance with you . * "At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates . * And the Levite , because he has no portion nor inheritance with you , and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates , may come and eat and be satisfied , that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do .

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