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`Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God ; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead ;
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for a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God , and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
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`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
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`this [is] the beast which ye do eat : ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats ,
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hart , and roe , and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;
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and every beast dividing the hoof , and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs , bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat .
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`Only, this ye do not eat , of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof : the camel , and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they [are] to you;
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and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof , and not [bringing] up the cud, unclean it [is] to you; of their flesh ye do not eat , and against their carcase ye do not come.
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`This ye do eat of all that [are] in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat ;
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and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat ; unclean it [is] to you.
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`Any clean bird ye do eat ;
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and these [are] they of which ye do not eat : the eagle , and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,
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and every raven after its kind;
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and the owl , and the night-hawk , and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;
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the [little] owl , and the [great] owl , and the swan,
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and the pelican , and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
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and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;
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and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten ;
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`Ye do not eat of any carcase ; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to Jehovah thy God ; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk .
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`Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;
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and thou hast eaten before Jehovah thy God , in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn , of thy new wine , and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd , and of thy flock , so that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days .
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`And when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it -- when the place is too far off from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, when Jehovah thy God doth bless thee; --
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then thou hast given [it] in money , and hast bound up the money in thy hand , and gone unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix;
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and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep , and for wine , and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God , and thou hast rejoiced , thou and thy house .
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As to the Levite who [is] within thy gates , thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.
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`At the end of three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed [it] within thy gates ;
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and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner , and the fatherless , and the widow, who [are] within thy gates , and they have eaten , and been satisfied , so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.