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But you may not eat anything that has no fins and scales: it is impure for you.
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You may eat any pure bird.
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The following * The following A number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty. you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture;
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the kite, the falcon, and the buzzard of any variety;
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every variety of raven;
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the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk of any variety;
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the little owl, the great owl, and the white owl;
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the pelican, the bustard, and the cormorant;
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the stork, any variety of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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All winged swarming things are impure for you: they may not be eaten.
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You may eat only pure winged creatures.
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You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
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You * You See note at 12.7. shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.
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You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks, in the presence of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, in the place where [God] will choose to establish the divine name, so that you may learn to revere your God ื™ื”ื•ื” forever.
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Should the distance be too great for you, should you be unable to transport them, because the place where your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has chosen to establish the divine name is far from you and because your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has blessed you, * has blessed you I.e., with abundant crops.
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you may convert them into money. Wrap up the money and take it with you to the place that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has chosen,
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and spend the money on anything you wantโ€”cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, and rejoice with your household.
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But do not neglect the [family of the] Levite in your community, for he has no hereditary portion as you have.
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Every third year * Every third year Lit. "After a period of three years"; cf. Deut. 26.12. you shall bring out the full tithe of your yield of that year, but leave it within your settlements.
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Then the [family of the] Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your settlements shall come and eat their fill, so that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” may bless you in all the enterprises you undertake.
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Every seventh year * Every seventh year Lit. "After a period of seven years"; cf. 14.28. you shall practice remission of debts.
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This shall be the nature of the remission: all creditors shall remit the due that they claim from their fellow [Israelites]; they shall not dun their fellow [Israelites] or kin, for the remission proclaimed is of ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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You may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kin.
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There shall be no needy among youโ€”since your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will bless you in the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you as a hereditary portionโ€”
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if only you heed your God ื™ื”ื•ื” and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.
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For your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will bless you as promised: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself; you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.
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If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kin in any of your settlements in the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kin.
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Rather, you must open your hand and lend whatever is sufficient to meet the need.
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Beware lest you harbor the base thought, "The seventh year, the year of remission, is approaching," so that you are mean and give nothing to your needy kinโ€”who will cry out to ื™ื”ื•ื” against you, and you will incur guilt.
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Give readily and have no regrets when you do so, for in return your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will bless you in all your efforts and in all your undertakings.
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For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kin in your land.
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If a fellow Hebrew manโ€”or womanโ€”is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall set him free.
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When you set him free, do not let him go empty-handed:
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Furnish him out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has blessed you.
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Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and your God ื™ื”ื•ื” redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.
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But should he say to you, "I do not want to leave you"โ€”for he loves you and your household and is happy with youโ€”
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you shall take an awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall become your slave in perpetuity. Do the same with your female slave.
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When you do set either one free, do not feel aggrieved; for in the six years you have been given double the service of a hired worker. Moreover, your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will bless you in all you do.
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You * You See note at 12.7. shall consecrate to your God ื™ื”ื•ื” all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.
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You and your household shall eat it annually before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” in the place that ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose.
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But if it has a defect, lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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Eat it in your settlements, the impure among you no less than the pure, just like the gazelle and the deer.
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Only you must not partake of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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Observe the month * month Cf. Exod. 13.4; 23.15; 34.18. of Abib and offer a passover sacrifice to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, for it was in the month * month See previous note. of Abib, at night, that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” freed you from Egypt.
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You shall slaughter the passover sacrifice for your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, from the flock and the herd, in the place where ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose to establish the divine name.
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You shall not eat anything leavened with it; for seven days thereafter * thereafter Lit. "upon it." you shall eat unleavened bread, bread of distressโ€”for you departed from the land of Egypt hurriedlyโ€”so that you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt as long as you live.
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For seven days no leaven shall be found with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh of what you slaughter on the evening of the first day shall be left until morning.
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You are not permitted to slaughter the passover sacrifice in any of the settlements that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you;
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but at the place where your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose to establish the divine name, there alone shall you slaughter the passover sacrifice, in the evening, at sundown, the time of day when you departed from Egypt.
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You shall cook and eat it at the place that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose; and in the morning you may start back on your journey home.
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After eating unleavened bread six days, you shall hold a solemn gathering * solemn gathering Precise meaning of Heb. โ€˜asereth uncertain. Cf. Lev. 23.36; Num. 29.35. for your God ื™ื”ื•ื” on the seventh day: you shall do no work.
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You shall count off seven weeks; start to count the seven weeks when the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
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Then you * you See note at 12.7. shall observe the Feast of Weeks for your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, offering your freewill contribution according as your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has blessed you.
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You shall rejoice before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the [family of the] Levite in your communities, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your midst, at the place where your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose to establish the divine name.
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Bear in mind that you were slaves in Egypt, and take care to obey these laws.
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After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your vat, you shall hold the Feast of Booths for seven days.
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You shall rejoice in your festival, with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the [family of the] Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your communities.
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You * You See note at 12.7. shall hold a festival for your God ื™ื”ื•ื” seven days, in the place that ื™ื”ื•ื” will choose; for your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will bless all * all Lit. "you in all." your crops and all your undertakings, and you shall have nothing but joy.
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Three times a yearโ€”on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Boothsโ€”all your males shall appear before your God ื™ื”ื•ื” in the place that [God] will choose. They shall not appear before ื™ื”ื•ื” empty-handed,
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but each with his own gift, according to the blessing that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has bestowed upon you.
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You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.
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You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.
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Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you.
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You shall not set up a sacred postโ€”any kind of pole beside the altar of your God ื™ื”ื•ื” that you may makeโ€”
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or erect a stone pillar; for such your God ื™ื”ื•ื” detests.
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You shall not sacrifice to your God ื™ื”ื•ื” an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to your God ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted your God ื™ื”ื•ื” and transgressed the Covenantโ€”
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turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commandedโ€”
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and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel,
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you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone that man or woman to death.โ€”
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A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more * more Lit. "three." witnesses; no one shall be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.โ€”
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Let the hands of the witnesses be the first to put [the condemned] to death, followed by the hands of the rest of the people. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
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If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assaultโ€”matters of dispute in your courtsโ€”you shall promptly repair to the place that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will have chosen,
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and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case,
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you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that ื™ื”ื•ื” chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you.
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You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.
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Should either party [to the dispute] act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there your God ื™ื”ื•ื”, or the magistrate, that party shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:
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all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.
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If, after you have entered the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, "I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,"
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you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by your God ื™ื”ื•ื”. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kin.
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Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since ื™ื”ื•ื” has warned you, "You must not go back that way again."
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And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.
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When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by * by Nuance of Heb. milliphne uncertain. the levitical priests.
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Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere his God ื™ื”ื•ื”, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.
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Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel.
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The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off ื™ื”ื•ื”'s offerings by fire as their * their Lit. "its," i.e., the tribe's. portion,
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and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: ื™ื”ื•ื” is their portion, as promised.
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This then shall be the priests' due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest.
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You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.
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For your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of ื™ื”ื•ื” for all time.
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If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that ื™ื”ื•ื” has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases.
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He may serve in the name of his God ื™ื”ื•ื” like all his fellow Levites who are there in attendance before ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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They shall receive equal shares of the dues, without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies. * without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
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When you enter the land that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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Let no one be found among you who consigns a son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer,
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one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.
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For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to ื™ื”ื•ื”, and it is because of these abhorrent things that your God ื™ื”ื•ื” is dispossessing them before you.
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You must be wholehearted with your God ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, your God ื™ื”ื•ื” has not assigned the like.
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From among your own people, your God ื™ื”ื•ื” will raise up for you a prophet like myself; that is whom you shall heed.
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