1You are the children of Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep of the flock, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6And you may eat every animal that divides the hoof, the cleft of the hoof being cloven in two, and that brings up the cud, among the animals. 7Nevertheless, you shall not eat of those that only bring up the cud, or only divide the cloven hoof: the camel, the hare, and the hyrax; for they bring up the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean to you. 8Also the swine is unclean to you, because it divides the hoof, yet does not bring up the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcass. 9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales. 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. 11All clean birds you may eat. 12But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 13the hawk, the falcon, and the kite after its kind; 14every raven after its kind; 15the ostrich, the great owl, the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds; 16the little owl, the eared owl, the barn owl, 17the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat. 19Also every swarming thing that flies is unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. 20But, you may eat all clean birds. 21You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. 22You shall give a tithe to tithe all the increase of your seed that the field yields year by year. 23And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God all your days. 24But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, or if the place where Jehovah your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when Jehovah your God has blessed you, 25then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose. 26And you shall spend that money for whatever your soul desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for whatever your soul desires; you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you. 28At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. 29And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.