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Deuteronomy 14:19-29 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

19. “And every creeping insect that flies is unclean for you, they are not eaten.

20. “Any clean bird you do eat.

21. “Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22. “You shall tithe without fail all the yield of your grain that the field brings forth year by year.

23. “And you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, in the place where He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so that you learn to fear יהוה your Elohim always.

24. “But when the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, or when the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, when יהוה your Elohim is blessing you,

25. then you shall give it in silver, and shall take the silver in your hand and go to the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses.

26. “And you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires: for cattle or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for whatever your being desires. And you shall eat there before יהוה your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

27. “And do not forsake the Lĕwite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

28. “At the end of every third year you bring out all the tithe of your increase of that year and store it up within your gates.

29. “And the Lĕwite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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