7. But don’t eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. So these animals are not a clean food for you.
8. And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don’t chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don’t eat any meat from pigs. Don’t even touch a pig’s dead body.
9. “You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales.
10. But don’t eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.
11. “You may eat any clean bird.
12. But don’t eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,
13. red kites, falcons, any kind of kite,
14. any kind of raven,
15. horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk,
16. little owls, great owls, white owls,
17. desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
18. storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.
19. “All insects with wings are unclean, so don’t eat them.
20. But you may eat any clean bird.
21. “Don’t eat any animal that has died by itself. You may give the dead animal to the foreigner in your town, and he can eat it. Or you may sell the dead animal to a foreigner. But you yourselves must not eat the dead animal, because you belong to the Lord your God. You are his special people. “Don’t cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.
22. “Every year you must be sure to save one-tenth of all the crops that grow in your fields.
23. Then you must go to the place the Lord chooses to be the home for his name. You will go there to be with the Lord your God. At that place you will eat the tenth of your crops—one-tenth of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. In this way you will always remember to respect the Lord your God.