You are sons to [before] Adonoy, your God; do not lacerate yourselves and do not make yourselves bald between your eyes for a dead person.

For you are a sacred people to Adonoy, your God, and Adonoy has chosen you to be for Him a treasured people from all the peoples who are on the surface of the earth.

Do not eat any abomination.

These are the animals that you are to eat: the bovine, the sheep and the goat;

The gazelle, the deer and the fallow deer; and the ibex and the adax; and the wild ox and the wild sheep.

And every animal whose sole is cloven, whose hoof is truly split in two, regurgitating [its] cud within the animals, it may you eat.

These, however, do not eat from the regurgitators of cud and from the cloven-soled [split into hooves]: the dromedary, the camel, and the hare and the hyrax; for regurgitators of cud are they, but have no cloven sole; they are ritually unclean for you.

Also the pig, because it is cloven-soled but does not [regurgitate its] cud; it is ritually unclean for you. From their flesh do not eat, and do not come in contact [near] with their carcasses.

These are you to eat from whatever is in the water: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.

And whatever does not have fins and scales do not eat; they are ritually unclean for you.

You may eat any pure bird.

And this is what you may not eat: the griffon vulture and the bearded vulture, and the black vulture;

The ra’ah and the ayah, and the kite according to its kind;

And every raven according to its kind;

And the dark desert eagle owl and the kestrel, and the gull, and the sparrow hawk according to its kind;

The dark little owl and the long-eared owl, and the tinshames;

And the light little owl and the Egyptian vulture, and the shalach;

And the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the duchifas, and the bat.

And all flying creeping creatures are ritually unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

Every ritually clean bird you may eat.

Do not eat any carcass; to the [uncircumcised] alien in your cities give it and he will eat it or sell it to a non-Jew [foreigner], for you are a people sanctified to Adonoy, your God; do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk [milk with meat].

You must surely tithe all the produce of your planting, that your field yields on a yearly basis.

You shall eat in the presence of Adonoy, your God, in the place He chooses to house His Presence [Shechinah] there—the tithe of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and flocks; in order that you learn to fear [before] Adonoy, your God, all the years.

If the journey will be beyond you; if you will be unable to carry it because the place is distant for you where Adonoy, your God, chooses to set His Presence [Shechinah] there, for Adonoy, your God, has blessed you—

you will substitute coins. You will bundle the coins in your hand, and will go to the place that Adonoy, your God, chooses.

You will spend the money for anything you desire—for cattle, sheep, wine, intoxicating liquor [fresh and aged wine]—and for anything that you wish; and you will eat there in the presence of Adonoy, your God, and will rejoice, you and [the members of] your household.

And the Levite who is in your city, you must not abandon; since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

At the end of three years, separate all the tithes of your produce of that year and set them aside in your city.

The Levite shall come, for he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the proselyte and the orphan and the widow who are in your city, let them eat their fill; in order that Adonoy, your God, bless you in all the endeavors that you make.