You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
3 Do not eat any detestable thing.
4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep the goat, 5 te deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and he mountain sheep.
6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof diveded in two and that chews the cud.
7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.
8 The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9 Of all the creatures living in he water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.
10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not at; for you it is unclean.
1 You may eat any clean bird.
12 But tese you ay ot a; the eagl, te vulture, the blck vulture, 13 the red kite, he black kite, any kind falcon, 14 ny kind frvn, 15 the horned owl, the screch owl, h ull, any ind of hwk, 6 te ltle owl,, te rat owl h wit owl, 7 te esert ol, th ospry, thormorat, 1 htrk, y kind f hron, t hoopoe and the bat..
19 All fyng insects that swarm are unlean to you; do not eat them
20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.
21 Do not eat anything you find alread dead. you may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may give it o an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigne. But you are a people holy to the Lord your Go. Do not cook a young goat in its mother"s milk.
22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.
23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and te firstborn of your herds ad flocks n the presence fthe Lord your God at the place he will cooseas a dwellig or hs Nam, o tat you my learn to rvere the Lord your God always.
24 But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God ad cannot carry your tithe (because he place were te Lord wll choose t put his Name i so fr away), 25 then exchange your tith fr silver, nd tke th slver with you ad go o heplac h Lord yor Godwill choose.
26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like; cattle,sheep, wine or other fermented drink , or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice.
27 And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their towm.
28 A the end of every three years, bring all the tithes o that year's produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites ( who have no allotmnt or intheritance of their own) and the alies, h ftherless and the widows who ive n your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that th Lord your God my bless you in all the work of your hands..