The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

CAP. XIV.

[verse 1] Sones be ȝe of the Lord ȝour God; ȝe shulen not kut, ne make ballidnes, vpon [verse 2] the deed, for `a puple holi thow art [the peple is holy E pr. m.] to the Lord thi God, and thee hath chosun that thow be to hym into a special pu|ple, of alle gentilis that ben vpon erthe. [verse 3] Ne eete ȝe thingis that ben vnclene. [verse 4] This is the beest that ȝe owen to eete; oxe, [verse 5] and sheep, and she geet, hert, capret, bugle, `tragelaphum, that is, a beest in part lijk an hert, and in part lijk a goot [goot hert E pr. m. sed suppl. sec. m. in marg.] , phigarg [phigars A.] , origen, camelion, `that is, a beest lijk a camele in the heed, in the bodi to a paard, and in the nek to an horse, in the feet to a bugle [Om. E pr. m. sed suppl. sec. m. in marg.] , and pardelun, `that is, a litil pard [Om. E pr. m. sed suppl. sec. m. in marg.] . [verse 6] Al beest that in two partis deuydith the clee, and chewith code, ȝe shulen eete. [verse 7] And of thes that chewen code, and dyuyden not clee, thes ȝe shulen not eete; chameyl, haare, yr|chun, for thei chowen code, and deuyden not the clee, thei shulen be vnclene to [verse 8] ȝow; a suwe forsothe, for she deuydith the clee, and chewith no code, she shal be vnclene; the flesh of hem ȝe shulen not ete, and the careyns ȝe shulen not towche. [verse 9] Thes thingis ȝe shulen eete, of alle thingis that dwellen in watris; tho [verse 10] that han fynnys and scalis eete ȝe; tho that with outen fynnys and scales ben, eete ȝe not, for thei ben vnclene. [verse 11] Alle [verse 12] clene briddis eete ȝe; vnclene eete ȝe not, that is, egle, and griffun, and a merliȝon, [verse 13] and yron, `that is, a whyte foul, lasse than a grijp, and of his kynde [Om. E pr. m. sed suppl. sec. m. in marg.] , and

[verse 14] gryip, and kyte, aftir his kynde, and al [verse 15] thing of crowe kynde, and ostrich [strucion E pr. m.] , and nyȝt foul, and a koote, and an hawke, [verse 16] after his kynde, a gerfawkon, and a swan, and an [Om. BCDEFH.] ybyn [foule that eteth froggys and eddrys E pr. m.] , `that is a foule of Nyle flood, that puttynge his bille into his ers, [verse 17] purgith hym self [Om. E pr. m. suppl. sec. m. in marg.] , and a dyuedap, a [verse 18] pellican, and a nyȝt crowe, a cormeraunt, and a jay, eche in his kynde, and a lap|wynk, and a reremos. [verse 19] And al that crep|ith, and [an A.] hath fynnes, shal be vnclene, and not ben eten. [verse 20] Alle that is clene, eete ȝe; [verse 21] al that is faln with deeth, eete ȝe not of it. To the pilgryme that is with ynne the ȝatis ȝif that he eete, or sel to hym, for thow art an hooli puple of the Lord thi God. Thow shalt not seethe the kidde in the mylk of his moder. [verse 22] The tenthe paart thow shalt seuer fro alle the fruytis that growen in thi lond, bi eche [verse 23] ȝeer; and thow shalt eete in the siȝt of the Lord thi God, in the place that he chees, that in it the name of hym be in|wardli clepid, the dyme of thi whete, of wyn, and oyle; and the first gotun of droues, and of thi sheep thow shalt offre, that thow lerne to drede the Lord thi God, in al tyme. [verse 24] Forsothe whanne lenger were the weye, and the place that the Lord thi God chees, and hath blessid to thee, ne thow mayst not to hym alle thes [verse 25] thingis brynge, thow shalt selle alle, and into priys turne, and thow shalt bere in thin hoond, and go to the place that the [verse 26] Lord thi God chesith; and thow shalt bigge [bie C.] of the same money what euere thing to the plese, other [or C.] of droues, or [Om. C.] of sheep; forsothe wyn, and sidre, and al that desyrith thi soule; and [other C.] thow shalt eete before the Lord thi God, and shal [verse 27] eete, thow, and thin hows, and the Le|uyte that is with ynne thi ȝatis; be war

that thow forsake not him, for he hath noon other paart in thi possessioun. [verse 28] The thridde ȝeer thow shalt seuer an other dyme of alle thingis that growen to thee that tyme, and put vp with ynne the ȝatis. [verse 29] And the Leuyte shal come, that hath noon other paart ne possessioun with thee, and the [Om. E pr. m.] pilgryme, and fader|les child, and wedowe, that with ynne thi ȝatis ben; and thei shulen eete, and be fulfillid, that the Lord thi God blesse to thee, in alle the werkis of thin hoondes that thou shalt doo.