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| 1 Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. |
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| 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. |
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| 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. |
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| 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; |
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| 5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep. |
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| 6 And every beast that hath cloven hoofs, and the feet quite split open into double hoofs, and which cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat. |
That parteth the hoof – The hoof is what the animal stands on. For clean animals they stand on hoofs that are split in two. The symbolism here seems to be that they stand on both the letter and the spirit of God's word. Therefore they are candidates for being clean, i.e., acceptable to eat.
And cheweth the cud – "Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach in the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation." - Wikipedia
Those animals which do both are considered to be clean. What this seems to indicate symbolically is those are clean in the Lord's sight who both stand on the letter and spirit of God's word (part the hoof), AND then ponder the meaning over in their minds (chew the cud.) |
| 7 Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs--they shall be unclean unto you; |
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| 8 and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, yet cheweth not the cud--it shall be unclean unto you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch. |
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| 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat; |
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| 10 but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you. |
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| 11 All clean birds shall ye eat. |
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| 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle, |
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| 13 and the falcon, and the kite, and the black kite after its kind; |
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| 14 and every raven after its kind; |
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| 15 and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;
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| 16 the owl, and the ibis and the swan, |
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| 17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet, |
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| 18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. |
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| 19 And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten. |
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| 20 All clean fowls shall ye eat. |
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| 21 Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. |
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| 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the field, year by year. |
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| 23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually. |
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| 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God blesseth thee; |
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| 25 then shalt thou give it for money, and bind the money together in thy hand, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose, |
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| 26 and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy house. |
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| 27 And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee. |
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| 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates; |
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| 29 and the Levite--for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee--and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. |
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