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“You are sons of Yahuah your Elohim. You shall not cut yourselves, nor place baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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For you are a holy people to Yahuah your Elohim, and Yahuah has chosen you to be for Him a treasured people from all the peoples who are upon the face of the earth.
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You shall not eat any abominable thing.
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These are the beasts that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
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the deer, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
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And every beast that divides the hoof and splits the cleft into two hooves and brings up the cud among the beasts, that you may eat.
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Nevertheless, these you shall not eat from those that bring up the cud or from those that divide the split hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger, because they bring up the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean to you.
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And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not bring up the cud; it is unclean to you. From their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
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These you may eat from all that are in the waters: everything that has fins and scales you may eat.
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But whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
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Every clean bird you may eat.
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But these are those from which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the black vulture,
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and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture according to its kind,
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and every raven according to its kind,
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and the daughter of the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the gull, and the hawk according to its kind,
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the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,
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and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the cormorant,
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and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
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And every winged swarming thing shall be unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.
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Every clean winged creature you may eat.
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You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to Yahuah your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
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Tithing, you shall surely tithe all the produce of your seed that comes out from the field year by year.
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And you shall eat before Yahuah your Elohim, in the place that He chooses to cause His name to dwell there, the tenth of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, so that you may learn to fear Yahuah your Elohim all the days.
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And if the way is too great for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahuah your Elohim chooses to place His name there is too far from you, when Yahuah your Elohim blesses you,
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then you shall turn it into silver, bind the silver in your hand, and go to the place that Yahuah your Elohim chooses.
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And you shall give the silver for whatever your being desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your being asks of you. And you shall eat there before Yahuah your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
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And the Levi who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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At the end of three years you shall bring out all the tenth of your produce in that year and place it within your gates.
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And the Levi, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that Yahuah your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.”