¶ Ye are the children¹ of the LORD your God: ye shall not² cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

³For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

⁴Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

⁵These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat⁶, and the pygarg, and the wild ox⁷, and the chamois.

⁸And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

⁹Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

And the swine¹⁰, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch¹¹ their dead carcase.

¹²These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

¶ And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

And the glede¹⁴, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

And every raven after his kind,

¹⁵And the owl, and the night¹⁶ hawk, and the cuckow¹⁷, and the hawk after his kind,

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan¹⁸,

And the pelican, and the gier¹⁹ eagle, and the cormorant²⁰,

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing²¹, and the bat.

²²And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

¶ But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

Ye shall not eat of any thing²³ that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger²⁴ that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy²⁵ people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt²⁶ not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

¶²⁷Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

And thou shalt eat before²⁸ the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings²⁹ of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place³⁰ be too far from thee, which³¹ the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

And thou shalt bestow³² that money for whatsoever thy soul³³ lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth³⁴: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice³⁵, thou, and thine household,

And the Levite³⁶ that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no³⁷ part nor inheritance with thee.

At the end³⁸ of three years thou shalt bring³⁹ forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

And the Levite, (because he hath⁴⁰ no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger⁴¹, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD⁴² thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.