1 You are sons of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his own people, a treasure belonging to him.
3 Do not eat any detestable thing.
4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
5 the deer, the gazelle, the fallow deer, the wild goat, the addax, the oryx, and the wild sheep.
6 You may eat any animal among the beasts that has a parted hoof, cleft into two, and that chews the cud.
7 Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof parted and cloven, these you must not eat: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not part the hoof; they are unclean for you.
8 The pig too is unclean for you, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9 Of everything that lives in the water you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales.
10 Whatever lacks fins and scales you must not eat; it is unclean for you.
11 You may eat every clean bird.
12 These are the ones you are not to eat: the eagle, the lammergeier, the osprey,
13 the buzzard, the kite, and the falcon of any kind;
14 every kind of raven;
15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, and every kind of hawk;
16 the little owl, the eared owl, the barn owl,
17 the desert owl, the vulture, the cormorant,
18 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they must not be eaten.
20 Every clean winged creature you may eat.
21 Do not eat anything that has died of itself. You may give it to the sojourner within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
22 Every year you must be sure to tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field.
23 In the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where he chooses to make his name dwell, you are to eat the tithe of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 But if the way is too long for you to carry it, because the place the LORD your God chooses to set his name is too distant from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,
25 then turn it into money, tie the money up in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.
26 Spend the money on whatever you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything else you crave. Then eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
27 And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no share or inheritance among you.
28 At the end of every three years, bring out the full tithe of that year's produce and store it within your gates,
29 so that the Levite, who has no share or inheritance among you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat their fill. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all the work your hand undertakes.