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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. |
Chosen thee – Not so much for their own sake as for God's "Holy Name's Sake" (Ezek. 36:22)--for the sake of love to R518:1*
A peculiar people – The Jews were a special people whom God had separated from the world; they were a chosen generation or race. R5460:3
The Bride of Christ will be his companion, his confidant, his peculiar treasure. R1820:3
Unto himself – Peter shows these words belong not to the Jews, but to their antitype, the elect Church. (1 Pet. 2:9) R1820:3
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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. |
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| 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. |
Ye shall not eat – This was said to the Jews, not to us. Q431:3
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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. |
Shalt not forsake him – Israel was voluntarily to contribute to his support because "he hath no part nor inheritance." (Num. 18:20) A52
The position of the Levites was not fortified by threats of present or future calamity. OV11:2
No part nor Inheritance – The Levites had as much right to a share in the land as the other tribes. Instead of the land some equivalent should be provided for them, and the tithe was this reasonable and just provision. HG535:5
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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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