| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1"You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your foreheads on account of the dead, | 1"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. |
| 2because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the peoples of the earth." | 2"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. |
| 3"You must not eat any detestable food. | 3"You shall not eat any detestable thing. |
| 4These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, | 4"These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
| 5deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. | 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. |
| 6You may eat every animal with a divided hoof—those with split cloven hooves—that chews the cud. | 6"Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. |
| 7However, you must not eat these animals that chew the cud or have a divided hoof: the camel, hare, and rock badger. Even though they chew the cud, their hooves are not divided. Therefore they are unclean for you. | 7"Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. |
| 8And also the pig, because even though its hoof is divided, it does not chew the cud. It is therefore unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or even touch their carcasses. | 8"The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses. |
| 9"You may choose to eat from these creatures in the water: you may eat anything with fin and scale, | 9"These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, |
| 10but you may not eat anything without fin and scale, since it is unclean to you. | 10but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. |
| 11"You may eat all clean birds. | 11"You may eat any clean bird. |
| 12But you must not eat from any of these: the eagle, vulture, osprey, | 12"But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, |
| 13buzzard, any kind of kite, | 13and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, |
| 14any kind of raven, | 14and every raven in its kind, |
| 15the ostrich, night hawk, seagull, any kind of falcon, | 15and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, |
| 16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl, | 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, |
| 17the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, | 17the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, |
| 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. | 18the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. |
| 19Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you. They must not be eaten. | 19"And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. |
| 20You may eat every bird that is clean. | 20"You may eat any clean bird. |
| 21"You must not eat any carcass. But you may give it to the alien in your cities so he may eat it or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk." | 21"You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, 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"Be sure to tithe annually from everything you plant that yields a harvest in the field. | 22"You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year. |
| 23Then in the presence of the LORD your God, in the place where he'll choose to establish his name, you may consume the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your livestock and flock, so that you'll learn to revere the LORD your God all your life. | 23"You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. |
| 24Now the way may be distant from you, so that you are unable to transport your tithe because you have been blessed by the LORD your God and the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name may be distant from you. | 24"If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the LORD your God blesses you, |
| 25In that case, convert it into cash, secure the money, and then bring it to the place where the LORD will choose. | 25then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses. |
| 26You may spend the money to your heart's content to buy livestock, flocks, wine, strong drink, and whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God." | 26"You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. |
| 27"But you must not forget the descendant of Levi in your town because there is no tribal allotment for him as there is for you. | 27"Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you. |
| 28Every third year, bring all the tithes of your produce of that year and store it in your cities | 28"At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town. |
| 29so the descendants of Levi—who have no tribal allotment as you do—foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come, eat, and be satisfied. That way, the LORD your God shall bless you in everything you do." | 29"The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. |
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