You are children of the ETERNAL your God. You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead.
For you are a people consecrated to the ETERNAL your God: the ETERNAL your God chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be the treasured one.athe treasured one See note at 7.6.
You shall not eat anything abhorrent.
These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
bA number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty. the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep,
and any other animal that has true hoofs that are cleft in two and brings up the cud—such you may eat.
But the following, which do bring up the cud or have true hoofs that are cleft through, you may not eat: the camel, the hare, and the daman—for although they bring up the cud, they have no true hoofs—they are impure for you;
also the swine—for although it has true hoofs, it does not bring up the cud—is impure for you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses.
These you may eat of all that live in water: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.
But you may not eat anything that has no fins and scales: it is impure for you.
You may eat any pure bird.
The followingcThe following A number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty. you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture;
the kite, the falcon, and the buzzard of any variety;
every variety of raven;
the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk of any variety;
the little owl, the great owl, and the white owl;
the pelican, the bustard, and the cormorant;
the stork, any variety of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
All winged swarming things are impure for you: they may not be eaten.
You may eat only pure winged creatures.
You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to the ETERNAL your God.You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
YoudYou See note at 12.5. shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.
You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the ETERNAL your God, in the place where [God] will choose to establish the divine name, so that you may learn to revere the ETERNAL your God forever.
Should the distance be too great for you, should you be unable to transport them, because the place where the ETERNAL your God has chosen to establish the divine name is far from you and because the ETERNAL your God has blessed you,ehas blessed you I.e., with abundant crops.
you may convert them into money. Wrap up the money and take it with you to the place that the ETERNAL your God has chosen,
and spend the money on anything you want—cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of the ETERNAL your God, and rejoice with your household.
But do not neglect the Levitefthe Levite See the second note at 12.12. in your community, for he has no hereditary portion as you have.
Every third yeargEvery third year Lit. “After a period of three years”; cf. 26.12. you shall bring out the full tithe of your yield of that year, but leave it within your settlements.
Then the Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your settlements shall come and eat their fill, so that the ETERNAL your God may bless you in all the enterprises you undertake.