| NET Bible | New International Version |
| 1You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead. | 1You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, |
| 2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth. | 2for 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 treasured possession. |
| 3You must not eat any forbidden thing. | 3Do not eat any detestable thing. |
| 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, | 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
| 5the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep. | 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. |
| 6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud. | 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. |
| 7However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you). | 7However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. |
| 8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains. | 8The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses. |
| 9These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat, | 9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. |
| 10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you. | 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean. |
| 11All ritually clean birds you may eat. | 11You may eat any clean bird. |
| 12These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, | 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, |
| 13the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species, | 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, |
| 14every raven after its species, | 14any kind of raven, |
| 15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species, | 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, |
| 16the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl, | 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, |
| 17the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, | 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, |
| 18the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat, | 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. |
| 19and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you--they may not be eaten. | 19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. |
| 20You may eat any clean bird. | 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat. |
| 21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. | 21Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk. |
| 22You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year. | 22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. |
| 23In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. | 23Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. |
| 24When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant, | 24But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away), |
| 25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself. | 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. |
| 26Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it. | 26Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice. |
| 27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you. | 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. |
| 28At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages. | 28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, |
| 29Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do. | 29so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
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