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street, and completely burn with fire the city 22 “You shall truly tithe all the increase of
and all its plunder, for the LORD your God. It your grain that the field produces year by year.
shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built 23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God,
again. So none of the accursed things shall in the place where He chooses to make His
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remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn name abide, the tithe of your grain and your
from the fierceness of His anger and show you new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your
mercy, have compassion on you and multiply herds and your flocks, that you may learn to
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you, just as He swore to your fathers, be- fear the LORD your God always. But if the
cause you have listened to the voice of the journey is too long for you, so that you are not
LORD your God, to keep all His command- able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the
ments which I command you today, to do what LORD your God chooses to put His name is too
is right in the eyes of the LORD your God. far from you, when the LORD your God has
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“You are the children of the LORD your blessed you, then you shall exchange it for
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shave the front of your head for the dead. For the place which the LORD your God chooses.
you are a holy people to the LORD your God, 26 And you shall spend that money for whatever
and the LORD has chosen you to be a people your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine
for Himself, a special treasure above all the or similar drink, for whatever your heart
peoples who are on the face of the earth. desires; you shall eat there before the LORD
3 “You shall not eat any detestable thing. your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your
4 These are the animals which you may eat: the household. You shall not forsake the Levite
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ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, who is within your gates, for he has no part nor
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the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, inheritance with you.
the antelope, and the mountain sheep. And 28 “At the end of every third year you shall
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you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, bring out the tithe of your produce of that year
having the hoof split into two parts, and that and store it up within your gates. And the
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chews the cud, among the animals. Neverthe- Levite, because he has no portion nor inheri-
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less, of those that chew the cud or have cloven tance with you, and the stranger and the
hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the fatherless and the widow who are within your
camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that
chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; the LORD your God may bless you in all the
they are unclean for you. Also the swine is work of your hand which you do.
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unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, Psalm 37:23–29
yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat
their flesh or touch their dead carcasses. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered
9 “These you may eat of all that are in the by the LORD,
waters: you may eat all that have fins and And He delights in his way.
scales. And whatever does not have fins and 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
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scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. cast down;
11 “All clean birds you may eat. But these you For the LORD upholds him with His
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shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, hand.
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kinds; every raven after its kind; the ostrich, I have been young, and now am old;
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Yet I have not seen the righteous
the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk forsaken,
after their kinds; the little owl, the screech owl, Nor his descendants begging
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the white owl, the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, bread.
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the fisher owl, the stork, the heron after its 26 He is ever merciful, and lends;
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kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
19 “Also every creeping thing that flies is And his descendants are blessed.
unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 27 Depart from evil, and do good;
20 “You may eat all clean birds. And dwell forevermore.
21 “You shall not eat anything that dies of 28 For the LORD loves justice,
itself; you may give it to the alien who is with- And does not forsake His saints;
in your gates, that he may eat it, or you may They are preserved forever,
sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people But the descendants of the wicked
to the LORD your God. shall be cut off.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its moth- 29 The righteous shall inherit the land,
er’s milk. And dwell in it forever.
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