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Deuter­­onomy 14:7-24 Modern English Version (MEV)

7. Nevertheless, you may not eat of these that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, the rabbit, and the coney. For they chew the cud, but their hoof is not divided, therefore they are unclean to you.

8. The pig is unclean to you because it divides the hoof, yet it does not chew the cud. You must not eat of their flesh or touch their dead carcass.

9. These you shall eat of all that are in the water: All that have fins and scales you may eat.

10. Whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat. It is unclean to you.

11. You may eat of all clean birds.

12. However, these are the ones which you cannot eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

13. the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after its kind,

14. every raven after its kind,

15. and the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,

16. the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,

17. the pelican, the carrion vulture, and the cormorant,

18. the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19. Every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you. They must not be eaten.

20. You may eat all the clean birds.

21. You must not eat of anything that dies of itself, but you may give it to the foreigner that is in your gates, so 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.

22. You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed, so that the field produces year by year.

23. You must eat before the Lord your God, in the place in which He shall choose to place His name, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil, and of the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks so that you may learn to always fear the Lord your God.

24. If the distance is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, where the Lord your God shall choose to set His name, when the Lord your God blesses you,

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