Deuteronomy

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14.3.1
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
14.4.1
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14.5.1
the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the gazelle, and the antelope, and the chamois.
14.6.1
Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
14.7.1
Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
14.8.1
The pig, because he doesn’t part the hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
14.9.1
These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
14.10.1
and whatever doesn’t have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
14.11.1
Of all clean birds you may eat.
14.12.1
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
14.13.1
and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
14.14.1
and every raven after its kind,
14.15.1
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
14.16.1
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
14.17.1
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
14.18.1
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
14.19.1
All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
14.20.1
Of all clean birds you may eat.
14.21.1
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner 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 Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
14.22.1
You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.
14.23.1
You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
14.24.1
If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
14.25.1
then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
14.26.1
and you shall 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 shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
14.27.1
The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
14.28.1
At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
14.29.1
and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
15.1.1
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
15.2.1
This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
15.3.1
Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
15.4.1
However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
15.5.1
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
15.6.1
For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
15.7.1
If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
15.8.1
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
15.9.1
Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
15.10.1
You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
15.11.1
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
15.12.1
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
15.13.1
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
15.14.1
you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15.15.1
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
15.16.1
It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
15.17.1
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
15.18.1
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
15.19.1
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
15.20.1
You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
15.21.1
If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
15.22.1
You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
15.23.1
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
16.1.1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
16.2.1
You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
16.3.1
You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
16.4.1
There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
16.5.1
You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;
16.6.1
but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
16.7.1
You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
16.8.1
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].
16.9.1
Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
16.10.1
You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
16.11.1
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
16.12.1
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
16.13.1
You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
16.14.1
and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
16.15.1
Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16.16.1
Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
16.17.1
every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
16.18.1
Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
16.19.1
You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16.20.1
That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
16.21.1
You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
16.22.1
Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
17.1.1
You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17.2.1
If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
17.3.1
and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;
17.4.1
and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
17.5.1
then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
17.6.1
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
17.7.1
The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
17.8.1
If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
17.9.1
and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
17.10.1
You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
17.11.1
according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
17.12.1
The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
17.13.1
All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17.14.1
When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;
17.15.1
you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
17.16.1
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
17.17.1
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17.18.1
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
17.19.1
and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
17.20.1
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
18.1.1
The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.
18.2.1
They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
18.3.1
This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
18.4.1
The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
18.5.1
For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
18.6.1
If a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and come with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
18.7.1
then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
18.8.1
They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

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