CLV(i)
1 Sons are you to Yahweh your Elohim; you shall neither slash yourselves nor make a baldness between your eyes for a dead one,
2 for you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim, and Yahweh your Elohim chose you to belong to Him as a special people above all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.
3 You shall not eat anything abhorrent.
4 This is the beast that you may eat:the bull, the flockling of the sheep and the flockling of the goats;"
5 the stag, the gazelle, the bubale, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
6 And any other beast bisecting the hoof, cleaving the cleft into two hooves and bringing up the cud, among beasts, it you may eat.
7 Only this you may not eat of those bringing up the cud and of those bisecting the cloven hoof:the camel, the hare and the coney, for they are bringing up the cud yet do not bisect the hoof; they are unclean to you;"
8 and the swine, for it is bisecting the hoof and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it is not stirring up the cud; it is unclean to you. From their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch.
9 This may you eat of all that is in the waters:anything which has fins and scales you may eat.
10 Yet anything which has no fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
11 Any clean bird you may eat;
12 yet these are those of which you shall not eat:the vulture, the bearded vulture and the eagle,
13 the black kite and the falcon, all of its kind,
14 and every raven, all of its kind,
15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull and the hawk, all of its kind,
16 the little owl, the eagle owl and the ibis,
17 the pelican, the Egyptian vulture and the cormorant,
18 the stork and the heron, all of its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.
19 Every swarmer of the flyers, it is unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
20 Every clean flyer you may eat.
21 You shall not eat any carcass. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother.
22 You shall tithe, yea tithe all the yield of your seed which is coming forth from the field year by year.
23 You will eat before Yahweh your Elohim, in the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His name, the tenth of your grain, your grape juice and your clarified oil, the firstlings of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim all the days.
24 Yet in case the way is too much for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to place His name is far from you (seeing that Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you),
25 then you will convert it into silver, bundle the silver in your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose.
26 You will give the silver for anything after which your soul may yearn:for one of the herd or one of the flock, for wine, for intoxicant or for anything which your soul may ask of you; then you will eat there before Yahweh your Elohim, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 Now the Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no portion or allotment with you.
28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your yield in that year and leave it within your gates,
29 that the Levite may come (for he has no portion or allotment with you), and the sojourner, the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, and they may eat and be satisfied, so that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.