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Chapter 14 |
| 1 | Ye are the
children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any
baldness between your eyes for the dead. |
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2 | For thou art an holy people
unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people
unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. |
| 3 | Thou
shalt not eat any abominable thing. |
| 4 | These are the beasts which ye
shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, |
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5 | The hart, and the
roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild
ox, and the chamois. |
| 6 | And every beast that parteth the hoof, and
cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that
ye shall eat. |
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7 | Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that
chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the
hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore
they are unclean unto you. |
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8 | And the swine, because it divideth the
hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of
their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. |
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9 | These ye shall eat of all
that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: |
| 10 |
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto
you. |
| 11 |
Of all clean birds ye shall eat. |
| 12 | But these
are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the
ospray, |
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| And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his
kind, |
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And every raven after his kind, |
| 15 | And the owl,
and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, |
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The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, |
| 17 | And the
pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, |
| 18 | And the
stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. |
| 19 |
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be
eaten. |
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| But of all clean fowls ye may eat. |
| 21 | Ye shall
not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the 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. |
| 22 | Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of
thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. |
| 23 | And thou
shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place
his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
LORD thy God always. |
| 24 | 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, when the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee: |
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25 | Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the
money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose: |
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| 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: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God,
and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, |
| 27 | And the
Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no
part nor inheritance with thee. |
| 28 | At the end of three years
thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt
lay it up within thy gates: |
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29 | And the Levite, (because he hath no
part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied;
that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou
doest. |
