(14:1b) "Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness
between your eyes for the dead."
Don't cut yourself or shave between your eyes.
(14:3) "Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing."
14:1Ye are the children of
the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness
between your eyes for the dead.
14:2
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath
chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that
are upon the earth.
14:4
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14:5
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the
pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
14:6
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two
claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
14:7
Nevertheless these ye
shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that 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.
14:8
And the swine, because
it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you:
ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
(14:10) "Whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat."
Don't eat any seafood unless it has fins and scales. Oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters are
"unclean" and shouldn't be eaten. God Hates Shrimp What the Bible says about Shrimp
(14:11, 18) "Of all clean birds you may eat. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle ... and the bat."
To the biblical god, bats are just unclean birds.
14:9
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and
scales shall ye eat:
14:10
And whatsoever hath not
fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
(14:21) "Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates,
that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."
Don't eat dead animals that you find lying around.
(But it's OK to feed them to strangers, or sell them to foreigners.) And don't boil a
kid (baby goat) in its mother's milk.
(14:23) "That thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always." Should we fear God?
14:21Ye shall not eat of anything
that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto
the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell
it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
14:22
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
bringeth forth year by year.
14:23
And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall
choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of
thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou
mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
14:24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry
it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall
choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
14:25
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand,
and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
14:26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,
for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever
thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and
thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
14:27
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for
he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
14:28
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine
increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
14:29
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and
the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates,
shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.