(4) 1 You are the children of Adonai your God. [a] You shall not cut yourselves, [b] nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Adonai your God, and Adonai has chosen you to be le'am segulah ·people of special treasure· for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

3 ‡ Deut 14:3 (#3.248): T. Not to eat detestable animals that are un kosher, that is treif ·unclean· / R. Not to eat the flesh of unfit (consecrated or sacrificial) animals in which a blemish has been inflicted intentionally
R. Note: Oral Tradition identifies that this refers to unfit consecrated animals in which a blemish was inflicted You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois. 6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you. 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses. 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat. 10 You shall not eat whatever does not have fins and scales. It is unclean to you. 11 § Deut 14:11 (Deut 14:11-18) (#3.249): You may eat any bird that is ritually clean, that is kosher ·clean· Of all clean birds you may eat. 12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, 13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind, 14 every raven after its kind, 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl, 17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 * Deut 14:19 (Deut 14:19-20) (#3.250): Not to eat treif ·unclean· winged swarming insects All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten. 20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

21 [f] You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Adonai your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

(5) 22 ‡ Deut 14:22 (Deut 14:22-23, 14:24-26, 14:27-29) (#8.515): T. To tithe the entire crop of your planting, the produce of your field, year by year / R. To set apart the ma'aser sheni ·second tithe· in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the sabbatical cycle to be eaten by its owner in Jerusalem / R. To set aside the ma'aser sheni ·second tithe·
T. Directive: You are to eat this in the presence of Adonai your God You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. 23 You shall eat before Adonai your God, in the place which he chooses, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Adonai your God always. 24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Adonai your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Adonai your God shall bless you; 25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Adonai your God shall choose. 26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Adonai your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27 You shall not forsake the Levite [Descendant of United with] who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 28 § Deut 14:28 (Deut 14:27-29, 14:22-29, 26:12-13) (#8.516): T. To set apart a tithe for the Levi [United with], foreigner, orphan, and widow every three years / R. To separate the ma'aser sheni ·second tithe· for the poor At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. 29 The Levite [Descendant of United with], because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Adonai your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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