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Deuteronomy
Chapter 14
1
You are the children of Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead.
You
shall not cut yourselves,
nor
make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2
For you are an holy people unto Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
Jehovah/God has chosen you
to
be a peculiar people unto Himself,
above
all the nations that are upon the earth.
3
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4
These are the animals/beasts which you shall eat.
The
ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5
the
hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer,
and
the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox,
and
the chamois.
6
And every animal/beast that parts the hoof,
and
cleaves the cleft into two claws,
and
chews the cud among the animals/beasts,
that
you shall eat.
7
Nevertheless these you shall not eat
of
those who chew the cud,
or
of those who divide the cloven hoof;
as
the camel, and the hare, and the coney.
For
they chew the cud,
but
divide not the hoof;
therefore
they are unclean unto you.
8
And the swine,
because
it divides the hoof,
yet
chews not the cud,
it
is unclean unto you.
You
shall not eat of their flesh,
nor
touch their dead carcass.
9
These you shall eat of all that are in the waters.
All
that have fins and scales shall you eat.
10
And whatsoever has not fins and scales
you
may not eat;
it
is unclean unto you.
11
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
12
But these are they of which you shall not eat.
The
eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, 13
and
the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14
and
every raven after his kind, 15
and
the owl, and the night hawk,
and
the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16
the
little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17
and
the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, 18
and
the stork, and the heron after her kind,
and
the lapwing, and the bat.
19
And every creeping thing that flies is unclean unto you.
They
shall not be eaten.
20
But of all clean fowls you may eat.
21
You shall not eat of any thing that dies of itself.
You
shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates,
that
he may eat it; or you may sell it unto an alien.
For
you are an holy people
unto
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead.
You
shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22
You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed,
that
the field brings forth year by year.
23
And you shall eat before Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead,
in
the place which He shall choose to place His Name there,
the
tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil,
and
the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks;
that
you may learn to fear Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead always.
24
And if the way be too long for you,
so
that you are not able to carry it;
or
if the place be too far from you,
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
shall
choose to set His Name there,
when
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead has blessed you 25
then
shall you turn it into money,
and
bind up the money in your hand,
and
shall go unto the place
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead shall choosen.
26
And you shall bestow that money
for
whatsoever your soul lusts after,
for
oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
or
for whatsoever your soul desires.
And
you shall eat there before Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead,
and
you shall rejoice, you, and your household, 27
and
the Levite that is within your gates.
You
shall not forsake him;
for
he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28
At the end of three years
you
shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year,
and
shall lay it up within your gates.
29
And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you,
and
the stranger,
and
the fatherless, and the widow,
who
are within your gates shall come,
and
shall eat and be satisfied;
that
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
may
bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
{Note:
The Jewish (doctrinal) system of taxation was to tithe to the
government 10% a year. Then every 3 years an additional 10% was
collected to give to the truly needy - the widows and the orphans and
the cripples, etc. Now as far as spiritual gifts, 'free will
offerings' are permitted. These are only to be made by believers and
by believers who have enough doctrine to understand that it is God
who gives to US. We voluntarily return a portion (no percentage
specified) from that which we understand we have been blessed by God.
And, our 'gift' should be of ourselves first.}
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