Deuteronomy 14
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"You are p the sons of the Lord your God. q You shall not cut yourselves or make any r baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
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For s you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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t "You shall not eat any abomination.
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u These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
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Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
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Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the v rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.
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And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and w their carcasses you shall not touch.
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"Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.
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And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
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"You may eat all clean birds.
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But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
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the kite, the falcon of any kind;
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every raven of any kind;
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the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;
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the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl
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and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
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the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
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And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
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All clean winged things you may eat.
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x "You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For y you are a people holy to the Lord your God. z "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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a "You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.
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And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, b you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, c and the firstborn of your herd and flock, d that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because e the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there,
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then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses
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and spend the money for whatever you desire - oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And b you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
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And you shall not neglect f the Levite who is within your towns, for g he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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h "At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.
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And the Levite, because g he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that i the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
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Cross References
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Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
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Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth.
Ezekiel 7:18
They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Ezekiel 4:14
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.
Acts 10:13 - 14
And there came a voice to him: "Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
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Deuteronomy 14:4 - 20
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat.
Leviticus 11:2 - 23
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
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Leviticus 11:5
And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
Psalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
Proverbs 30:26
The rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs.
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Leviticus 11:26
Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
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Leviticus 7:24
The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Exodus 23:19
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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Numbers 18:21
To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 15:20
You shall eat it, you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place that the Lord will choose.
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Deuteronomy 12:6
And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
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Deuteronomy 4:10
How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.
Deuteronomy 17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them.
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Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.
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Deuteronomy 14:23
And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
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Deuteronomy 12:19
Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.
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Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled.
Amos 4:4
Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
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Deuteronomy 14:27
And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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