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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Clean and Unclean Food</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are the children of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for you are a people holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has chosen you to be his treasured possession.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not eat any detestable thing. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:5 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You may eat any clean bird. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">any kind of raven, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.14.21"><span class="content">Do not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tithes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God always. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will choose to put his Name is so far away), </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will choose. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and rejoice. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.14.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DEU.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year&#8217;s produce and store it in your towns, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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