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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God chose you to be a people for his own possession out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
But these you shall not eat, from among those that bring up the cud and from among those that part the hooves and make claws: the camel and the hare and the rock badger, because they bring up the cud but do not part the hoof; these are unclean for you.
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and makes claws of the hoof, yet it does not chew the cud — this is unclean for you. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
You shall not eat anything that has died of itself; it shall be given to the resident alien who is in your cities, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in its mother's milk.
And you shall eat it before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for his name to be invoked there. You shall bring the tithes of your grain and of your wine and of your oil, the firstborn of your oxen and of your sheep, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God all the days.
But if the way is too long for you, and you are not able to carry them up, because the place which the Lord your God shall choose for his name to be invoked there is far from you, and because the Lord your God will bless you,
And you shall spend the silver on whatever your soul desires — on oxen or on sheep, on wine or on strong drink, or on anything your soul desires; and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you and your household shall rejoice.
And the Levite shall come, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your cities, and they shall eat and be filled, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works that you do.