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Deuteronomy 14:11-23 New King James Version (NKJV)

11. “All clean birds you may eat.

12. But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

13. the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;

14. every raven after its kind;

15. the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;

16. the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

17. the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

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

19. “Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

20. “You may eat all clean birds.

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.

22. “You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.

23. And 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.

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