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¹Be ye the sons of your Lord God; ye shall not cut yourselves, neither ye shall make baldness, upon a dead man,

²for thou art an holy people to thy Lord God, and he chose thee that thou be to him into a special people, of all the folks that be upon earth.

³Eat ye not those things that be unclean.

⁴This is a beast which ye shall eat; an ox, and a sheep, and a goat,

⁵an hart, a capret, a wild ox, tragelaph, that is, a beast in part like a goat buck, and in part like an hart, a pygarg, an ostrich, a camelopard.

⁶Ye shall eat each beast that parteth the claw into two parts, and cheweth the cud.

⁷And ye shall not eat these beasts, of them that chew the cud, and part not the claw; a camel, an hare, and a coney; for these chew the cud, and part not the claw, they shall be unclean to you;

⁸also a swine, for it parteth the claw, and cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean; ye shall not eat the flesh of them, and ye shall not touch their dead bodies.

⁹Ye shall eat these things, of all that dwell in waters; eat ye those things that have fins and scales;

¹⁰eat ye not those things that be without fins and scales, for those be unclean.

¹¹Eat ye all clean birds;

¹²eat ye not unclean birds, that is, an eagle, and a gripe, and an aliet,

¹³an heron, and a vulture, and a kite by his kind,

¹⁴and all thing of ravens’ kind,

¹⁵and a struthio, and a night crow, and a lari, and an hawk by his kind,

¹⁶a falcon, and a swan, and a ciconia,

¹⁷and a dipper, a porphyrio, and a rearmouse, a cormorant,

¹⁸and a calidris, all in their kind; also a lapwing and a bat.

¹⁹And all thing that creepeth, and hath fins, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

²⁰Eat ye all thing that is clean;

²¹but whatever thing is dead by itself, eat ye not thereof. Give thou meat to the pilgrim that is within thy gates, that he eat, either sell thou meat to him, for thou art an holy people of thy Lord God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

²²Thou shalt separate the tenth part of all thy fruits that come forth in the land by each year;

²³and thou shalt eat in the sight of thy Lord God, in the place which he choose, that his name be called therein; thou shalt offer the tithe of thy wheat, of wine, and oil, and the first engendered things of thy droves, and of thy sheep, that thou learn to dread thy Lord God in all time.

²⁴But when the way is longer, and the place that thy Lord God choose is far, and he hath blessed, or increased, thee, and thou mayest not bring all these things to that place,

²⁵thou shalt sell all these things, and shalt turn them into price, and thou shalt bear them in thine hand, and thou shalt go to the place which thy Lord God choose;

²⁶and thou shalt buy of the same money whatever thing pleaseth to thee, either of droves, either of sheep; also thou shalt buy wine, and cider, and all things that thy soul desireth; and thou shalt eat before thy Lord God, and thou shalt make feast, thou, and thine house,

²⁷and the deacon or Levite that is within thy gates; be thou ware lest thou forsake him, for he hath not other part in thy possession.

²⁸In the third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee in that year, and thou shalt keep it within thy gates.

²⁹And the deacon or Levite shall come, that hath none other part nor possession with thee, and the pilgrim, and the fatherless, either motherless child, and the widow, that be within thy gates, and they shall eat, and be fulfilled, that thy Lord God bless thee, in all the works of thine hands which thou shalt do.