1You are the children of Yehovah your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2For you are a holy people to Yehovah your God, and Yehovah has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 3You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the beasts which you 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 parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that you may eat. 7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you. 8And the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. 9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales you may eat; 10and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. 11Of all clean birds you may eat. 12But these are they of which you 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 to you: they shall not be eaten. 20Of all clean birds you may eat. 21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner 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 Yehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. 22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out from the field year by year. 23And you shall eat before Yehovah your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yehovah your God always. 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yehovah your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yehovah your God shall bless you; 25then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yehovah your God shall choose: 26and you shall spend the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yehovah your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27And the Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 28At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: 29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.