1Ye are the children of Jehovah your God : ye shall not cut yourselves , nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead . 2For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God , and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession , above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing . 4These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox , the sheep , and the goat , 5the hart, and the gazelle , and the roebuck , and the wild goat, and the pygarg , and the antelope , and the chamois . 6And every beast that parteth the hoof , and hath the hoof cloven in two , and cheweth the cud , among the beasts, that may ye eat. 7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud , or of them that have the hoof cloven : the camel , and the hare, and the coney ; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof , they are unclean unto you . 8And the swine , because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud , he is unclean unto you : of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch . 9These ye may eat of all that are in the waters : whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 10and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you . 11Of all clean birds ye may eat. 12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle , and the gier-eagle, and the ospray , 13and the glede , and the falcon, and the kite after its kind , 14and every raven after its kind , 15and the ostrich , and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind , 16the little owl , and the great owl , and the horned owl , 17and the pelican , and the vulture , and the cormorant , 18and the stork , and the heron after its kind , and the hoopoe , and the bat . 19And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you : they shall not be eaten. 20Of all clean birds ye may eat. 21Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself : thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates , that he may eat it ; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner : for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God . Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk .
Tithing and Its Purpose
22Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed , that which cometh forth from the field year by year . 23And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God , in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there , the tithe of thy grain , of thy new wine , and of thine oil , and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock ; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God always . 24And if the way be too long for thee , so that thou art not able to carry it , because the place is too far from thee , which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there , when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee ; 25then shalt thou turn it into money , and bind up the money in thy hand , and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: 26and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth , for oxen , or for sheep , or for wine , or for strong drink , or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee ; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God , and thou shalt rejoice , thou and thy household . 27And the Levite that is within thy gates , thou shalt not forsake him ; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee . 28At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year , and shalt lay it up within thy gates : 29and the Levite , because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee , and the sojourner , and the fatherless , and the widow, that are within thy gates , shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied ; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest .