MLV(i)
1 You* are the sons of Jehovah your* God. You* will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your* eyes for the dead.
2 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
3 You will not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which you* may eat: the ox, the sheep and the goat, 5 the male-deer and the gazelle and the roebuck and the wild goat and the ibex and the antelope and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat.
7 Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these you* will not eat: the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you*, 8 and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*. Of their flesh you* will not eat and their carcasses you* will not touch.
9 These you* may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales you* may eat. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you* will not eat; it is unclean to you*.
11 Of all clean birds you* may eat, 12 but these are those of which you* will not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey, 13 and the red-kite and the falcon and the kite according to its kind, 14 and every raven after its kind, 15 and the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-gull and the hawk according to its kind, 16 the little owl and the great owl and the horned owl, 17 and the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant, 18 and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. 19 And all winged creeping things are unclean to you*. They will not be eaten. 20 Of all clean birds you* may eat.
21 You* will not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the traveler who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 You will surely tithe all the increase of your seed; what comes forth from the field year by year. 23 And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you, 25 then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose. 26 And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 And the Levite who is within your gates, you will not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 28 At the end of every three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year and will lay it up within your gates.
29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates, will come and will eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
3 You will not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which you* may eat: the ox, the sheep and the goat, 5 the male-deer and the gazelle and the roebuck and the wild goat and the ibex and the antelope and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat.
7 Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these you* will not eat: the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you*, 8 and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*. Of their flesh you* will not eat and their carcasses you* will not touch.
9 These you* may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales you* may eat. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you* will not eat; it is unclean to you*.
11 Of all clean birds you* may eat, 12 but these are those of which you* will not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey, 13 and the red-kite and the falcon and the kite according to its kind, 14 and every raven after its kind, 15 and the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-gull and the hawk according to its kind, 16 the little owl and the great owl and the horned owl, 17 and the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant, 18 and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. 19 And all winged creeping things are unclean to you*. They will not be eaten. 20 Of all clean birds you* may eat.
21 You* will not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the traveler who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 You will surely tithe all the increase of your seed; what comes forth from the field year by year. 23 And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you, 25 then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose. 26 And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 And the Levite who is within your gates, you will not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 28 At the end of every three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year and will lay it up within your gates.
29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates, will come and will eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.