Beginning

14 “You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make yourself bald between your eyes for the dead.

² “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. And the LORD has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all the people who are upon the Earth.

³ “You shall eat no type of abomination.

⁴ “These are the beasts which you shall eat: beef, sheep, lamb, young goat, female goat,

⁵ “deer, gazelle, red deer, clean mountain goat, antelope, clean mountain sheep.

⁶ “And every beast that parts the hoof and divides the cleft into two claws and is of the beasts that chew the cud, that shall you eat.

⁷ “But these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that divide and split the hoof — the camel, the hare, the rock badger (for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof) — they shall be unclean to you.

⁸ “Also, the swine, because he does not divide the hoof and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

⁹ “These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat.

¹⁰ “And whatever has no fins or scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

¹¹ “Of all clean birds you shall eat.

¹² “But these are those of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

¹³ “the hawk, the falcon, the kite (after their kind),

¹⁴ “any kind of raven,

¹⁵ “the ostrich, the night crow, the seagull, the hawk (after her kind),

¹⁶ “the little owl, the great owl, the chameleon,

¹⁷ “the pelican, the carrion vulture, nor the cormorant:

¹⁸ “the stork, the heron (in his kind), the hoopoe, and the bat.

¹⁹ “And every creeping thing that flies shall be unclean to you. It shall not be eaten.

²⁰ “You may eat of all clean birds.

²¹ “You shall eat of nothing that dies alone. But you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

²² “You shall give the tithe of all the increase of your seed that comes forth from the field, year by year.

²³ “And you shall eat before the LORD your God (in the place which He shall choose to cause His Name to dwell) the tithe of your corn and of your wine and of your oil and of the firstborn of your cattle and of your sheep, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

²⁴ “And if the way is too long for you (so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is far from you where the LORD your God shall choose to set His Name, when the LORD your God shall bless you)

²⁵ “then you shall make it in money and take the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.

²⁶ “And you shall bestow the money for whatever your heart desires — whether it be ox or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever your heart desires — and shall eat it there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

²⁷ “And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates. For he has neither part nor inheritance with you.

²⁸ “At the end of three years, you shall bring forth all the tithes of your increase of the same year and lay it up within your gates.

²⁹ “Then, the Levite shall come, because he has no part or inheritance with you or the stranger or the fatherless or the widow who are within your gates. And he shall eat, and be filled, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”

15 “At the term of seven years, you shall make a release.

² “And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall cancel the loan of his hand which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not ask for it again from his neighbor, nor from his brother. For the LORD’s release is proclaimed.

³ “You may require it from a stranger. But that which you have with your brother, your hand shall release,

⁴ “except when there shall be no poor with you. For the LORD shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, to possess it,

⁵ “so that you obey the Voice of the LORD your God, to observe and do all these Commandments which I command you this day.

⁶ “For the LORD your God has blessed you, as He has promised you. And you shall lend to many nations. But you yourself shall not borrow. And you shall reign over many nations. And they shall not reign over you.

⁷ “If one of your brothers with you is poor—within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you—you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

⁸ “But you shall open your hand to him and shall sufficiently lend to him for his need which he has.

⁹ “Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, to say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand’, and it grieves you to look on your poor brother. And you give him nothing. And he cries to the LORD against you, so that sin is in you.

¹⁰ “You shall give to him. And do not let it grieve your heart to give to him. For because of this the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.

¹¹ “Because there shall always be poor in the land. Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor in your land.’

¹² “If your brother (a Hebrew man) sells himself to you, or a Hebrew woman, and serves you six years, in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

¹³ “And when you send him out free from you, you shalt not let him go away empty.

¹⁴ “You shall give him a liberal reward from your sheep and from your corn and from your wine. You shall give to him from that with which the LORD your God has blessed you.

¹⁵ “And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God delivered you. Therefore, I command you this thing today.

¹⁶ “And if he says to you, ‘I will not go away from you’, because he loves you and your house and because he does well with you,

¹⁷ “then you shall take an awl and pierce his ear through, against the door. And he shall be your servant forever. And you shall do likewise to your maid servant.

¹⁸ “Let it not grieve you when you let him go out free from you. For he has served you six years, the double worth of a hired servant, and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

¹⁹ “All the firstborn males that come from your cattle and from your sheep, you shall sanctify to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with your firstborn bullock or shear your firstborn sheep.

²⁰ “You shall eat it before the LORD your God, year by year, in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

²¹ “But, if there is any blemish in it (it is lame or blind or has any serious fault), you shall not offer it to the LORD your God,

²² “You shall eat it within your gates, both the unclean and the clean, just as the gazelle and as the deer.

²³ “Only, you shall not drink its blood. Poor it upon the ground, as water.”

16 “You shall keep the month of Abib. And you shall celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

² “You shall therefore offer the Passover to the LORD your God, of sheep and bullocks, in the place where the LORD shall choose to cause His Name to dwell.

³ “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it (the Bread of Tribulation, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life.

⁴ “And there shall be no leaven seen with you on all your coasts for seven days. Nor shall there remain until the morning any of the flesh which you offered the first day at evening.

⁵ “You may not offer the Passover within any of the gates which the LORD your God gives you.

⁶ “But, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name, there you shall offer the Passover at evening, around the going down of the Sun, in the season that you came out of Egypt.

⁷ “And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, and shall return the next day and go to your tents.

⁸ “Six days shall you eat unleavened bread. And the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.

⁹ “You shall count out seven weeks and shall begin to count the seven weeks when you begin to put the sickle to the corn.

¹⁰ “And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God, a free gift of your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God as the LORD your God has blessed you.

¹¹ “And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite who is within your gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you — in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name.

¹² “And you shall remember that you were a servant in Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe and do these Ordinances.

¹³ “You shall observe the Feast of the Tabernacles for seven days, after you have gathered in your corn, and your wine.

¹⁴ “And you shall rejoice in your feast — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

¹⁵ “Seven days shall you keep a feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose, when the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase and in all the works of your hands. You shall, indeed, be glad.

¹⁶ “Three times in the year shall all the males appear before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of the Weeks and at the Feast of the Tabernacle. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,

¹⁷ “every man according to the gift of his hand and according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

¹⁸ “You shall make yourself judges and officers in all your cities which the LORD your God gives you, throughout the tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ “Do not pervert the Law or show partiality or take reward. For the reward blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the just.

²⁰ “That which is just and right you shall follow, so that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God gives you.

²¹ “You shall plant for yourself no grove of any trees near the Altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make yourself.

²² “You shall set up for yourself no pillar (which the LORD your God hates).