God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day so that
thou do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Chapter .xiiij.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God, cut not your selves nor make
you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death. For thou art an
holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be
a several people unto himself, of all the nations that are upon the
earth. Ye shall eat no manner of abomination. These are the beasts
which ye shall eat of: oxen, sheep and goats, hart, roe and bugle, hart
{wild} goat, unicorn, origen and Camelion. And all beasts that cleave
the hoof, and slit it into two claws and chew the cud, them ye shall
eat. Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of
them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the
coney. For they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are
unclean unto you: and also the swine, for though he divide the hoof,
yet he cheweth not cud, and therefore is unclean unto you: Ye shall not
eat of the flesh of them nor touch the dead carcasses of them. These ye
shall eat of all that are in the waters: All that have fins and scales.
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of that ye may not eat, for
that is unclean unto you. Of all clean birds ye shall eat, but these
are they of which ye may not eat: the eagle, the goshawk, the
cormorant, the ixion, the vultur, the kite and her kind, and all kind
of ravens, the Ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk and
all her kind, the little owl, the great owl, the back, the bittern, the
pye, the stork, the heron, the Iay in his kind, the lapwing, the
swallow. And all creeping fowls are unclean unto you and may not be
eaten of: but of all clean fowls ye may well eat. Ye shall eat of
nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger
that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayst sell it unto an Alien. For
thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a
kid in his mother's milk. Thou shalt tithe all the increase of thy seed
that cometh out of the field year by year. And thou shalt eat before
the LORD thy God in the place, which he hath chosen to make his name
dwell there the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and
the firstborn of thine oxen and of thy flock that thou mayst learn to
fear the LORD thy God alway. If the way be too long for thee, so that
thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from the
which the LORD thy God hath chosen to set his name there (for the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee) then make it in money and take the money in
thine hand, and go unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen,
and bestow that money on whatsoever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen,
sheep, wine and good drink, and on whatsoever thy soul desireth, and
eat there before the LORD thy God and be merry: both thou and thine
household and the Levite that is in thy city.
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