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CHAP. XIV.
1 Gods children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning for the dead, 3 nor eat any abominable thing. 4 What may, and what may not bee eaten, of Beasts; 9 of fishes, 11 of sowles. 19 Creeping things may not bee eaten, 21 nor that which dieth of it selfe. 22 Tithes to bee eaten before the Lord, 24 or (if the way be too long) to be turned into mo∣ney, and it to be bestowed on things which they should eat and drinke with joy before the Lord. 27 The Levite may not be forsaken. 28 The third yeers tithe; for the Levite, stranger, fatherlesse, and widow.
YEe are the sonnes of Iehovah your God: yee shall not cut your selves, [unspec 1] nor put baldnesse between your eies for the dead. For thou art an holy people [unspec 2] to Iehovah thy God; and Iehovah hath cho∣sen thee to be unto him a people of peculiar treasure, above all peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
Thou shalt not eat any abomination. [unspec 3] [unspec 4] These are the beasts which yee shall eat; the Oxe, the Lambe of sheepe, and the Kid of Goats. The Hart, and the Roe-buck, and the [unspec 5] Fallow-deere, and the Wild-goat, and the Pygarg, & he Wild-oxe, and the Chamois,
And every beast that parteth the hoofe, [unspec 6] and cleaveth a sunder the cleft of two hoofes, that cheweth the cud among the beasts, that yee shall eat. But this yee shall not eat, of [unspec 7] them that chew the cud, or of them that part the cloven hoofe; the Camel, and the Hare, and the Conie, because they chew the cud, but they part not the hoofe, they shall be un∣cleane unto you. And the Swine, because [unspec 8] he parteth the hoofe, & cheweth not the cud, he shall be uncleane unto you: of their flesh yee shall not eat, and their carkasse yee shall not touch.
These yee shall eat of, all that are in the wa∣ters, [unspec 9] all that hath sinne and scale shall ye eat.
And all that hath not finne and scale, yee [unspec 10] shall not eat, it shall be uncleane unto you.
Every cleane bird yee shall eat. But these [unspec 11] [unspec 12] [unspec 13] are they of which yee shall not eat: the Ea∣gle, and Ossifrage, and the Osprey: And the Vulture, and the Kite, and the Glede, after her kinde: And every Raven after his kind: [unspec 14] [unspec 15]
And the Owle, and the Night-hawke, and the Sea-gull, and the Hawke after his kinde:
And the great Owle, and the little Owle, [unspec 16] [unspec 17] and the Red-shanke: And the Pelican, and the Gier-eagle, and the Cormorant: And [unspec 18] the Storke, and the Heron after her kinde, and the Lapwing, and the Bat: And every [unspec 19] creeping thing that flieth, it shall bee un∣cleane unto you: they shall not bee eaten. Every cleane fowle yee shall eat. Yee shall [unspec 20] [unspec 21] not eat of any carkasse; thou shalt give it un∣to the stranger that is in thy gates, that hee may eat it; or thou maiest sell it unto an alien; for thou art an holy people unto Iehovah thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a Kid in his mo∣thers milke.
Tithing thou shalt tithe all the revenue of [unspec 22] thy seed, that the field bringeth forth, yeere by yeere. And thou shalt eat before Ieho∣vah [unspec 23] thy God, in the place which hee shall chuse, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corne, of thy new wine, and of thy new oile, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flocke, that thou maiest learne to feare Iehovah thy God, all daies. And if the [unspec 24] way bee too much for thee, that thou art not able to carie it, because the place is farre from thee, which Iehovah thy God shall chuse, to set his name there, when Iehovah thy God hath blessed thee; Then shalt thou turne it [unspec 25] into money, and binde up the money in thine hand, and shalt goe unto the place which Iehovah thy God shall chuse. And thou [unspec 26] shalt give the money, for all that thy soule desireth, for oxen, or for sheepe, or for wine, or for strong drinke, or for whatsoever thy soule asketh of thee: and thou shalt eat there before Iehovah thy God; and thou shalt re∣joyce, thou and thine house. And the Le∣vite [unspec 27] which is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him, for hee hath no part nor inheri∣tance with thee.
At the end of three yeeres thou shalt bring [unspec 28] forth all the tithe of thy revenue in that yeere, and shalt lay it up within thy gates. And the Levite, because he hath no part nor [unspec 29] inheritance with thee; and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, & the widow which are with∣in thy gates, shall come, and shall eat, and be satisfied; that Iehovah thy God may blesse thee, in all the worke of thine hand, which thou shalt doe.
Annotations.
THE sonnes of Iehovah] or, sonnes to Iehovah: [unspec 1] the Chaldee translateth, sonnes before the Lord. Vnder the name sonnes, hee implieth daughters also, as is expressed in Deut. 32. 19. 2 Cor. 6. 18. Moses here entreth into precepts concer∣ning