Chapter 14

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YE are the children of Yahuah Elohaykem: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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For you are a holy people unto Yahuah Elohayka, and Yahuah has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

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You shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

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The deer, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

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And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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Nevertheless 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.

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And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

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

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

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Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

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

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

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And את every raven after his kind,

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And את the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

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And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

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

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

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But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

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Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto an alien: for you are a holy people unto Yahuah Elohayka. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

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You shall truly tithe את all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

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And you shall eat before Yahuah Elohayka, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear Yahuah Elohayka always.

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And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which Yahuah Elohayka shall choose to set his name there, when Yahuah Elohayka has blessed you:

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Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go unto the place which Yahuah Elohayka shall choose:

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And you shall bestow that money for whatsoever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before Yahuah Elohayka, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

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And the Leviyiy that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

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At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

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And the Leviyiy, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahuah Elohayka may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.



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