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Deuteronomy 14:21

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Ye shall not eat of any thing 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.

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  1. Deuteronomy 14:19

    And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

  2. Deuteronomy 14:20

    But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

  3. Deuteronomy 14:22

    Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

  4. Deuteronomy 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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.