1 Filhos sois do Senhor, vosso Deus; não vos dareis golpes, nem sobre a testa fareis calva por causa de algum morto. 2 Porque sois povo santo ao Senhor, vosso Deus, e o Senhor vos escolheu de todos os povos que há sobre a face da terra, para lhe serdes seu povo próprio.

3 Não comereis coisa alguma abominável. 4 São estes os animais que comereis: o boi, a ovelha, a cabra, 5 o veado, a gazela, a corça, a cabra montês, o antílope, a ovelha montês e o gamo. 6 Todo animal que tem unhas fendidas, e o casco se divide em dois, e rumina, entre os animais, isso comereis. 7 Porém estes não comereis, dos que somente ruminam ou que têm a unha fendida: o camelo, a lebre e o arganaz, porque ruminam, mas não têm a unha fendida; imundos vos serão. 8 Nem o porco, porque tem unha fendida, mas não rumina; imundo vos será. Destes não comereis a carne e não tocareis no seu cadáver. 9 Isto comereis de tudo o que há nas águas: tudo o que tem barbatanas e escamas. 10 Mas tudo o que não tiver barbatanas nem escamas não o comereis; imundo vos será.

11 Toda ave limpa comereis. 12 Estas, porém, são as que não comereis: a águia, o quebrantosso, a águia marinha, 13 o açor, o falcão e o milhano, segundo a sua espécie; 14 e todo corvo, segundo a sua espécie; 15 o avestruz, a coruja, a gaivota e o gavião, segundo a sua espécie; 16 o mocho, a íbis, a gralha, 17 o pelicano, o abutre, o corvo marinho, 18 a cegonha, e a garça, segundo a sua espécie, e a poupa, e o morcego. 19 Também todo inseto que voa vos será imundo; não se comerá. 20 Toda ave limpa comereis. 21 Não comereis nenhum animal que morreu por si. Podereis dá-lo ao estrangeiro que está dentro da tua cidade, para que o coma, ou vendê-lo ao estranho, porquanto sois povo santo ao Senhor, vosso Deus. Não cozerás o cabrito no leite da sua própria mãe.

22 Certamente, darás os dízimos de todo o fruto das tuas sementes, que ano após ano se recolher do campo. 23 E, perante o Senhor, teu Deus, no lugar que escolher para ali fazer habitar o seu nome, comerás os dízimos do teu cereal, do teu vinho, do teu azeite e os primogênitos das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas; para que aprendas a temer o Senhor, teu Deus, todos os dias. 24 Quando o caminho te for comprido demais, que os não possas levar, por estar longe de ti o lugar que o Senhor, teu Deus, escolher para ali pôr o seu nome, quando o Senhor, teu Deus, te tiver abençoado, 25 então, vende-os, e leva o dinheiro na tua mão, e vai ao lugar que o Senhor, teu Deus, escolher. 26 Esse dinheiro, dá-lo-ás por tudo o que deseja a tua alma, por vacas, ou ovelhas, ou vinho, ou bebida forte, ou qualquer coisa que te pedir a tua alma; come-o ali perante o Senhor, teu Deus, e te alegrarás, tu e a tua casa; 27 porém não desampararás o levita que está dentro da tua cidade, pois não tem parte nem herança contigo. 28 Ao fim de cada três anos, tirarás todos os dízimos do fruto do terceiro ano e os recolherás na tua cidade. 29 Então, virão o levita (pois não tem parte nem herança contigo), o estrangeiro, o órfão e a viúva que estão dentro da tua cidade, e comerão, e se fartarão, para que o Senhor, teu Deus, te abençoe em todas as obras que as tuas mãos fizerem.

1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 Of all clean birds ye may eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14 and every raven after its kind, 15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, 18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: 26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

1 You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

2 for 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 Do not eat any detestable thing.

4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. [^1]

6 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

7 However, 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.

8 The 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 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

11 You may eat any clean bird.

12 But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

13 the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,

14 any kind of raven,

15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

19 All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.

20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

21 Do 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 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.

23 Eat 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.

24 But 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),

25 then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

26 Use 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.

27 And 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 three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns,

29 so 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.