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举哀时的禁例

¹“你们是耶和华─你们上帝的儿女。不可为了死人割划自己，也不可使额上⚓光秃； ²因为你是属于耶和华－你上帝神圣的子民，耶和华从地面上的万民中拣选了你，作自己宝贵的子民。”

洁净和不洁净的食物

（利11．1－21）

³“凡可憎的物，你都不可吃。 ⁴可吃的牲畜是：牛、绵羊、山羊、 ⁵鹿、羚、麃子、野山羊、瞪羚、羚羊、山绵羊。 ⁶凡蹄分两瓣，分趾蹄而又反刍食物的牲畜，你们都可以吃。 ⁷但那反刍或分蹄之中不可吃的是：骆驼、兔子、石獾，虽然反刍却不分蹄，对你们是不洁净的； ⁸猪，虽然分蹄却不反刍，对你们也是不洁净的。它们的肉，你们一点都不可吃；它们的尸体，你们也不可摸。
⁹“水中可吃的是这些：凡有鳍有鳞的都可以吃； ¹⁰凡无鳍无鳞的都不可吃，对你们是不洁净的。
¹¹“凡洁净的鸟，你们都可以吃。 ¹²不可吃的是：雕、狗头雕、红头雕、 ¹³鹯、小鹰、鹞鹰的类群， ¹⁴各种乌鸦的类群、 ¹⁵鸵鸟、夜鹰、鱼鹰、鹰的类群、 ¹⁶鸮鸟、猫头鹰、角鸱、 ¹⁷鹈鹕、秃雕、鸬鹚、 ¹⁸鹳、鹭鸶的类群、戴鵀与蝙蝠。 ¹⁹凡有翅膀却爬行的群聚动物对你们是不洁净的，都不可吃。 ²⁰凡洁净的鸟，你们都可以吃。
²¹“凡自然死去的动物，你们都不可吃，可以给城里寄居的人吃，或卖给外人，因为你是属于耶和华－你上帝神圣的子民。
“不可用母山羊的奶来煮它的小山羊。”

十一奉献的条例

²²“每年，你务必从你播种的一切收成，田地所出产的，取十分之一献上。 ²³要在耶和华－你上帝面前，就是他选择那里作为他名居所的地方，吃你所献十分之一的五谷、新酒和新的油，以及牛群羊群中头生的，好让你天天学习敬畏耶和华－你的上帝。 ²⁴当耶和华－你的上帝赐福给你的时候，耶和华－你上帝选择立他名的地方若离你太远，路途太长，使你不能把这东西带到那里去， ²⁵你可以把它换成银子，把银子包起来，拿在手中，往耶和华－你上帝所选择的地方去。 ²⁶在那里，你可以随心所欲用银子或买牛羊，或买清酒烈酒，或买任何你心所想的。你和你的全家要在耶和华－你上帝面前吃喝欢乐。
²⁷“住在你城里的利未人，你不可离弃他，因为他在你那里没有分得产业。 ²⁸每三年的最后一年，你要把那一年收成的十分之一取出来，积存在你的城中； ²⁹那没有与你一起分得产业的利未人，和城里的寄居者，以及孤儿寡妇，都可以前来，吃得饱足，好让耶和华－你的上帝在你手里所做的一切事上赐福给你。”

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Improper Mourning

¹“You are⚓the children of the Lord your God; ⚓you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead. ²⚓For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Clean and Unclean Meat

³⚓“You shall not eat any detestable thing. ⁴⚓These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ⁶And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals. ⁷Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you. ⁸Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh ⚓or touch their dead carcasses.
⁹⚓“These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales. ¹⁰And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
¹¹“All clean birds you may eat. ¹²⚓But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, ¹³the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; ¹⁴every raven after its kind; ¹⁵the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds; ¹⁶the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, ¹⁷the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl, ¹⁸the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
¹⁹“Also ⚓every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; ⚓they shall not be eaten.
²⁰“You may eat all clean birds.
²¹⚓“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that 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 young goat in its mother’s milk.

Tithing Principles

²²⚓“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. ²³⚓And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of ⚓the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. ²⁴But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or⚓if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you, ²⁵then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. ²⁶And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall ⚓rejoice, you and your household. ²⁷You shall not forsake the ⚓Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
²⁸⚓“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the ⚓tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. ²⁹And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.