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| [1]YOU are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not make tattooed patterns in the skin, nor any baldness between your eyes for the dead. |
[1]Be ye the sones of youre Lord God; ye schulen not kitte you, nether ye schulen make ballidnesse, |
| [2]For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a beloved people to himself, above all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. |
[2]on a deed man, for thou art an hooli puple to thi Lord God, and he chees thee that thou be to hym in to a special puple, of alle folkis that ben on erthe. |
| [3]You shall not eat any abominable thing. |
[3]Ete ye not tho thingis that ben vncleene. |
| [4]These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, |
[4]This is a beeste which ye schulen ete; an oxe, and a scheep, and a goet, an hert, |
| [5]The hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the buffalo, the rock-goat, the mountain goat. |
[5]a capret, a `wielde oxe, tregelafun, `that is, a beeste in parti lijk `a buk of geet, and in parti liik an hert, a figarde, an ostrich, a camelioun, `that is, a beeste lijk in the heed to a camel, and hath white spottis in the bodi as a parde, and `is lijk an hors in the necke, and in the feet is lijc a `wilde oxe, and a parde. |
| [6]Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof divided into two parts and chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat. |
[6]Ye schulen ete ech beeste that departith the clee `in to twei partis, and chewith code. |
| [7]Nevertheless you shall not eat of these that chew the cud, or of these that have the hoof divided, such as the camel, the hare, and the coney; for they chew the cud, but their hoofs are not divided; therefore they are unclean for you. |
[7]Sotheli ye schulen not ete these beestis, of these that chewen code, and departen not the clee; a camel, an hare, and a cirogrille, `that is, a beeste ful of prickis, and is more than an irchoun; for tho chewen code, and departen not the clee, tho schulen be vncleene to you; |
| [8]And the swine, because it divides the hoof, but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you; you shall not eat of their meat, nor touch their dead carcasses. |
[8]also a swyn, for it departith the clee, and chewith not code, schal be vncleene; ye schulen not ete the fleischis of tho, and ye schulen not touche the deed bodies. |
| [9]These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you shall eat: |
[9]Ye schulen ete these thingis, of alle that dwellen in watris; ete ye tho thingis that han fynnes and scalis; |
| [10]And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. |
[10]ete ye not tho thingis that ben with out fynnes and scalis, for tho ben vncleene. |
| [11]Of all clean birds you shall eat. |
[11]Ete ye alle clene briddis; |
| [12]But these are the ones of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the raven after its kind, |
[12]ete ye not vncleene briddis, that is, an egle, and a gripe, |
| [13]The ostrich, and the hawk after its kind, |
[13]and an aliete, ixon, `that is, a whijt brid lesse than a vultur, and is of the `kynde of vultris, and a vultur, and a kite bi his kynde, |
| [14]The owl, the pelican, the crow, |
[14]and al thing of rauenys kynde, |
| [15]The little owl, the night hawk, and the bee eater, |
[15]and a strucioun, and a nyyt crowe, and a lare, |
| [16]The stork, the hoopoe after its kind, |
[16]and an hauk bi his kynde, a fawcun, |
| [17]The desert cock, and the peacock, |
[17]and a swan, and a siconye, and a dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous, a cormeraunt, |
| [18]And all the brood of these birds is unclean for you, you shall not eat them. |
[18]and a caladrie, alle in her kynde; also a lapwynke and a backe. |
| [19]But of all dean birds you shall eat. |
[19]And al thing that crepith, and hath fynnes, schal be vncleene, and schal not be etun. |
| [20]You shall not eat of anything that is unclean, but you shall give it to the stranger who is in your towns, that he may eat it. |
[20]Ete ye al thing that is cleene; sotheli what euer thing is deed bi it silf, ete ye not therof. |
| [21]Or you may sell it to an alien; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk |
[21]Yyue thou to the pilgrym which is with ynne thi yatis, that he ete, ether sille thou to hym, for thou art the hooli puple of thi Lord God. Thou schalt not sethe a kyde in `the mylk of his modir. |
| [22]You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed that the field brings forth year by year. |
[22]Thou schalt departe the tenthe part of alle thi fruytis that comen forth in the lond bi ech yeer; |
| [23]And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where he shall choose to set his name, the tithes of your grain, of your wine and of your oil and of the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. |
[23]and thou schal ete in the siyt of thi Lord God, in the place which he chees, that his name be clepid therynne; thou schalt offre the tithe of thi wheete, wyn, and oile, and the firste gendryd thingis of thi droues, and scheep, that thou lerne to drede thi Lord God in al tyme. |
| [24]And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; because the place where the LORD your God chooses to set his name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you; |
[24]Sotheli whanne the wei is lengere, and the place which thi Lord God chees is fer, and he hath blessid thee, and thou maist not bere alle these thingis to that place, |
| [25]Then you shall turn them into money, and bind up the money in a cloth and keep it in your possession, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses; |
[25]thou schalt sille alle thingis, and schalt turne in to prijs, and thou schalt bere in thin hond, and thou schalt go to the place which thi Lord God chees; |
| [26]And you shall buy with that money whatever you desire, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever you may desire; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household, |
[26]and thou schalt bie of the same money what euer thing plesith to thee, ethir of droues, ether of scheep; also thou schalt bie wyn, and sidur, and al thing that thi soule desirith; and thou schalt ete bifor thi Lord God, and thou schalt make feeste, |
| [27]And the Levite who is within your towns; you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. |
[27]thou, and thin hows, and the dekene which is withynne thi yatis; be thou war lest thou forsake hym, for he hath not other part in possessioun. |
| [28]At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithes of your crops the same year, and you shall lay it up within your towns; |
[28]In the thridde yeer thou schalt departe another dyme of alle thingis that growen to thee in that yeer, and thou schalt kepe withynne thi yatis. |
| [29]And the Levite, who has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the proselyte and the orphan and the widow who are within your towns shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you shall do |
[29]And the dekene schal come, whych hath noon other part nether possessioun with thee, and the pilgrym, and the fadirles, ether modirles child, and widue, that ben withynne thi yatis, `schulen come, and schulen ete, and be fillid, that thi Lord God blesse thee, in alle werkis of thin hondis whiche thou schalt do. |