1I er Guds børn. Derfor må I ikke snitte jer selv til blods eller barbere ansigtshåret* af for at vise jeres sorg over en, der er død, sådan som de andre folkeslag gør.2Nej, I skal være et helligt folk, indviet til Herren alene, for han har udvalgt jer blandt alle folk på jorden til at være hans ejendomsfolk.3I må ikke spise urene dyr,4men I må gerne spise okser, får, geder,5hjorte, gazeller, antiloper, rådyr, stenbukke og bjerggeder.6Alle dyr, der tygger drøv og har spaltede klove, må I spise,7men alle andre dyr må I ikke spise. Derfor må I ikke spise kameler, harer og klippegrævlinger, for de tygger drøv, men de har ikke spaltede klove.8I må heller ikke spise svin, for de har spaltede klove, men de tygger ikke drøv og er derfor urene. I må ikke engang røre den slags dyr, når de er døde.9Alle fisk med finner og skæl må I spise,10alle andre dyr, der lever i vandet, skal I regne for urene.11Alle fugle må I spise, bortset fra følgende som er urene: ørne, gribbe, fiskeørne, de forskellige falke- og høgearter, krager og ravne, strudse, måger, skarver, ibiser, rørhøns, ørkenugler, storke, de forskellige hejrearter og hærfugle.* Flagermus må I heller ikke spise.19Alle insekter med vinger er urene og må derfor ikke spises,20men de dyr med vinger, som er rene, må I gerne spise.*21Spis ikke selvdøde dyr, men sælg dem eventuelt til de fremmede iblandt jer, så de kan spise dem. Men I må ikke selv spise den slags, for I er et helligt folk, indviet til Herren jeres Gud. Kog ikke et gedekid i mælk fra dets mor.
Om tiende
22Hvert år skal I give en tiendedel af jeres høst til Herren.23Bring din tiende til det sted, som Herren vil udvælge til sin helligdom og hold festmåltid der. Det gælder tiende af korn, ny vin og olivenolie samt de førstefødte husdyr. Formålet med at give tiende er, at I derved skal lære at sætte Gud på førstepladsen i jeres liv.24Hvis helligdommen ligger så langt borte, at det er for besværligt at bringe tienden dertil,25kan I sælge de varer, I ellers skulle have givet i tiende, og rejse op til helligdommen med pengene26og dér købe en okse, et får, noget vin eller øl, så I sammen med jeres husstand kan feste for Herrens ansigt.27Glem ikke levitterne iblandt jer. Inviter dem med og del maden med dem, for de har ikke fået tildelt jord som jer andre.28Hvert tredje år skal I samle tienden på et bestemt sted i byen29og dele den ud mellem de jordløse levitter, de fremmede, enkerne og de forældreløse iblandt jer, så de kan komme og spise sig mætte. Da vil Herren, jeres Gud, velsigne jer i jeres arbejde.
English Standard Version
Clean and Unclean Food
1“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.2For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.3“You shall not eat any abomination.4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,* the antelope, and the mountain sheep.6Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.8And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.9“Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.11“You may eat all clean birds.12But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle,* the bearded vulture, the black vulture,13the kite, the falcon of any kind;14every raven of any kind;15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;16the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl17and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,18the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.19And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.20All clean winged things you may eat.21“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithes
22“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.23And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there,25then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses26and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.27And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.28“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.29And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
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