1 “You are ARom 8:16; 9:8, 26; Gal 3:26; 1 John 3:1the sons of the Loʀᴅ your God; BLev 19:28; 21:5; Jer 16:6; 41:5you shall not cut yourselves nor 1Lit make a baldness between your eyesshave your forehead for the sake of the dead. 2  “For you are ALev 20:26; Deut 7:6; Rom 12:1a holy people to the Loʀᴅ your God, and the Loʀᴅ has chosen you to be a BEx 19:5; Deut 4:20; 26:18; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet 2:9people for His 1Or special treasureown possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

3 “AEzek 4:14You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4  “ALev 11:2-45; Acts 10:14These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 1Exact identification of these animals is uncertainthe deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. 6  “Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in 1Lit two hoofstwo and 2Lit brings upchews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. 7  “Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which 1Lit brings upchew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in 2Lit a cleavingtwo: the camel and the 3Or harerabbit and the 4A small, shy, furry animal (Hyrax syriacus) found in the peninsula of the Sinai, northern Israel, and the region round the Dead Sea; KJV coney, orig NASB rock-badgershaphan, for though they 1Lit brings upchew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. 8  “The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

9 “These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, 10 but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11 “You may eat any clean bird. 12  “But ALev 11:13these are the ones which you shall not eat: the 1Or vultureeagle and the vulture and the 2Or black vulturebuzzard, 13 and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, 14 and every raven in its kind, 15 and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, 16 the little owl, the 1Or great horned owlgreat owl, the white owl, 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. 19  “And all the 1I.e. flying insectsteeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. 20  “You may eat any clean bird.

21 “ALev 17:15; 22:8; Ezek 4:14; 44:31You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your 1Lit gatestown, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are BDeut 14:2a holy people to the Loʀᴅ your God. CEx 23:19; 34:26You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22 “You ALev 27:30; Deut 12:6, 17; Neh 10:37shall surely tithe all the produce from 1Lit your seedwhat you sow, which comes out of the field every year. 23  “You shall eat in the presence of the Loʀᴅ your God, ADeut 12:5at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may BDeut 4:10; Ps 2:11; 111:10; 147:11; Is 8:13; Jer 32:38-40learn to fear the Loʀᴅ your God always. 24  “If the 1Lit waydistance is so great for you that you are not able to 2Lit carry itbring the tithe, since the place where the Loʀᴅ your God chooses ADeut 12:5, 21to set His name is too far away from you when the Loʀᴅ your God blesses you, 25 then you shall 1Lit give in moneyexchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the Loʀᴅ your God chooses. 26  “You may spend the money for whatever your 1Lit soulheart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your 1Lit soulheart 2Lit asks of youdesires; and ADeut 12:7there you shall eat in the presence of the Loʀᴅ your God and rejoice, you and your household. 27  “Also you shall not neglect ADeut 12:12the Levite who is in your 1Lit gatestown, BNum 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:12for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

28 “ADeut 26:12At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your 1Lit gatestown. 29  “The Levite, ADeut 10:9because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and BDeut 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12; Ps 94:6; Is 1:17the alien, the 1Or fatherlessorphan and the widow who are in your 2Lit gatestown, shall come and CDeut 6:11eat and be satisfied, in order that DDeut 15:10; Mal 3:10the Loʀᴅ your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.