| New King James Version | New International Version |
| 1“You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for 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 holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are 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. |
| 3“You shall not eat any detestable thing. | 3Do not eat any detestable thing. |
| 4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, | 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
| 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. | 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. |
| 6And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals. | 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. |
| 7Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for 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 swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses. | 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. |
| 9“These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales. | 9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. |
| 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. | 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean. |
| 11“All clean birds you may eat. | 11You may eat any clean bird. |
| 12But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, | 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, |
| 13the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; | 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, |
| 14every raven after its kind; | 14any kind of raven, |
| 15the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds; | 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, |
| 16the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, | 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, |
| 17the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl, | 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, |
| 18the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat. | 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. |
| 19“Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. | 19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. |
| 20“You may eat all clean birds. | 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat. |
| 21“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien 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 the LORD your God. “You shall 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. |
| 22“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. | 22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. |
| 23And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear 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. |
| 24But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you, | 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), |
| 25then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses. | 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. |
| 26And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. | 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. |
| 27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you. | 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. |
| 28“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. | 28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, |
| 29And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which 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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