¹ You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

² For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

³ No disgusting thing may be your food.

⁴ These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

⁵ The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

⁶ Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

⁷ But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

⁸ And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

⁹ And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

¹⁰ But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

¹¹ All clean birds may be used for food.

¹² But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

¹³ The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

¹⁴ Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

¹⁵ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

¹⁶ The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

¹⁷ And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

¹⁸ The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

¹⁹ Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

²⁰ But all clean birds you may take.

²¹ You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

²² Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

²³ And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

²⁴ And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

²⁵ Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

²⁶ And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

²⁷ And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

²⁸ At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

²⁹ And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

¹ Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:

² The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

³ All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

⁴ They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

⁵ But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

⁶ And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

⁷ And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.

⁸ But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.

⁹ And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

¹⁰ And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

¹¹ But let the greatest among you be your servant.

¹² And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

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¹⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

¹⁶ A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

¹⁷ You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

¹⁸ And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.

¹⁹ You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

²⁰ He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

²¹ And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.

²² And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.

²³ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

²⁴ You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

²⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

²⁷ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

²⁸ Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

²⁹ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

³⁰ If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

³⁸ See, your house is made waste.

³⁹ For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.