1 GLT You{ are} the sons of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, and do not make a baldness between your eyes for the dead, BSB BSB: You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
2 GLT for you{ are} a nation set apart for Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his possession, over all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. BSB BSB: for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
3 GLT You must not eat any abominable thing. BSB BSB: You must not eat any detestable thing.
4 GLT These{ are} the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep from the flock and the goat from the flock, BSB BSB: These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 GLT the deer and the gazelle and the roebuck and the wild goat and ibex and the antelope and the mountain sheep. BSB BSB: the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 GLT And you may eat any animal among the animals parting the hoof or{ with} a cleft splitting{ into} two hooves, chewing the cud. BSB BSB: You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
7 GLT Despite this, from chewers of the cud and from splitters of the hoof, the cloven- footed, you must not eat: the camel and the rabbit and the rock badger; because they cause the cud to go up and do not part the hoof, they{ are} unclean to you. BSB BSB: But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
8 GLT And the pig, because he parts the hoof and{ chews} not the cud, he{ is} unclean to you. From their meat do not eat, and do not touch their carcasses. BSB BSB: as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
9 GLT You may eat this from all that is in the water: all that has fins and scales you may eat. BSB BSB: Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
10 GLT And all that does not have fins and scales you must not eat; it{ is} unclean to you. BSB BSB: but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
11 GLT All clean birds you may eat. BSB BSB: You may eat any clean bird,
12 GLT And this{ is} what you must not eat from them: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey BSB BSB: but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
13 GLT the red kite and black kite, and birds of prey in their kinds BSB BSB: the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,
14 GLT and any raven in its kind BSB BSB: any kind of raven,
15 GLT and the owl and the night- hawk and the gull and the hawk in their kinds BSB BSB: the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
16 GLT the little owl and the great owl and the white owl BSB BSB: the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
17 GLT and the pelican and the osprey and the cormorant BSB BSB: the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
18 GLT and the stork and the heron in its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. BSB BSB: the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
19 GLT All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten. BSB BSB: All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
20 GLT You may eat all clean flying things. BSB BSB: But you may eat any clean bird.
21 GLT You must not eat anything dying{ of itself}; you may give it to the sojourner who{ is} within your gates, and he may eat it or sell to a foreigner. For you{ are} a nation sanctified to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother. BSB BSB: You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22 GLT You shall surely tithe all the produce of your seed that comes out of the field year{ after} year. BSB BSB: You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
23 GLT And you shall eat before the face of Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose for his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you will learn to honor Yahweh your God all the days. BSB BSB: And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and 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 fear the LORD your God always.
24 GLT And if the journey is too long for you— that you are not able to carry it because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to place his name there is too far from you— when Yahweh your God blesses you, BSB BSB: But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
25 GLT then you may give it in money, and bind the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose it. BSB BSB: then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.
26 GLT And give the money for anything that your spirit desires: for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything that your spirit desires; and you shall eat there before the face of Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. BSB BSB: Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
27 GLT And the Levite who{ is} within your gates— do not forsake him, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. BSB BSB: And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
28 GLT At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and you shall deposit{ it} within your gates; BSB BSB: At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.
29 GLT and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow who{ are} within your gates will come and eat and be satisfied so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do. BSB BSB: Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
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