ἐστε κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν οὐ φοιβήσετε οὐκ ἐπιθήσετε φαλάκρωμα ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ
You are sons of the Lord your God; you shall not make yourselves bald, nor shall you set a baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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Rahlfs Septuagint
Deuteronomy 14
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λαὸς ἅγιος εἶ κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σου καὶ σὲ ἐξελέξατο κύριος ὁ θεός σου γενέσθαι σε αὐτῷ λαὸν περιούσιον ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν ἐπὶ προσώπου τῆς γῆς
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God chose you to be for him a treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth
You shall not eat any abomination.
These are the animals that you shall eat: a calf from cattle and a lamb from sheep and a kid from goats.
hart and gazelle and wild ox and antelope and pygarg and oryx and camelopardalis
κτῆνος διχηλοῦν ὁπλὴν καὶ ὀνυχιστῆρας ὀνυχίζον δύο χηλῶν καὶ ἀνάγον μηρυκισμὸν ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσιν ταῦτα φάγεσθε
Every beast that divides the hoof and has hoofs split in two, and brings up cud among the beasts, these you shall eat.
ταῦτα οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀναγόντων μηρυκισμὸν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν διχηλούντων τὰς ὁπλὰς καὶ ὀνυχιζόντων ὀνυχιστῆρας τὸν κάμηλον καὶ δασύποδα καὶ χοιρογρύλλιον ὅτι ἀνάγουσιν μηρυκισμὸν καὶ ὁπλὴν οὐ διχηλοῦσιν ἀκάθαρτα ταῦτα ὑμῖν ἐστιν
And these you shall not eat from those that bring up the cud and from those that split the hooves and are cloven-hoofed: the camel and the hare and the hyrax, because they bring up the cud but do not split the hoof; these are unclean to you.
τὸν ὗν ὅτι διχηλεῖ ὁπλὴν τοῦτο καὶ ὀνυχίζει ὄνυχας ὁπλῆς καὶ τοῦτο μηρυκισμὸν οὐ μαρυκᾶται ἀκάθαρτον τοῦτο ὑμῖν ἀπὸ τῶν κρεῶν αὐτῶν οὐ φάγεσθε καὶ τῶν θνησιμαίων αὐτῶν οὐχ ἅψεσθε
and the pig, because it divides the hoof, and this, and it cleaves hoofs, and it does not chew the cud, this is unclean to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their carcasses
And these you shall eat from all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales in them you shall eat
And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
You may eat every clean bird.
And these you shall not eat from them: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey
and the vulture and the kite and the like to it
and every raven and the things like it
and the ostrich and the owl and the gull
and the heron and the swan and the ibis
and the cormorant and the hawk and the like of it and the hoopoe and the night raven
and the pelican and the plover and the like to it and the heron and the bat
All the creeping things of the birds are unclean to you; these you shall not eat from them.
You may eat every clean bird.
θνησιμαῖον οὐ φάγεσθε τῷ παροίκῳ τῷ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσίν σου δοθήσεται καὶ φάγεται ἢ ἀποδώσῃ τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ ὅτι λαὸς ἅγιος εἶ κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σου οὐχ ἑψήσεις ἄρνα ἐν γάλακτι μητρὸς αὐτοῦ
You shall not eat any carcass; it shall be given to the sojourner who is in your cities, and he shall eat it, or he shall sell it to the foreigner, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in its mother’s milk.
You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the produce of your field, year by year.
φάγῃ αὐτὸ ἔναντι κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ᾧ ἂν ἐκλέξηται κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐπικληθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ οἴσετε τὰ ἐπιδέκατα τοῦ σίτου σου καὶ τοῦ οἴνου σου καὶ τοῦ ἐλαίου σου τὰ πρωτότοκα τῶν βοῶν σου καὶ τῶν προβάτων σου ἵνα μάθῃς φοβεῖσθαι κύριον τὸν θεόν σου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας
and you shall eat it before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for his name to be invoked there; there you shall bring the tithes of your grain and of your wine and of your oil, the firstborn of your cattle and of your sheep, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God all your days
δὲ μακρὰν γένηται ἀπὸ σοῦ ἡ ὁδὸς καὶ μὴ δύνῃ ἀναφέρειν αὐτά ὅτι μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ ὁ τόπος ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐπικληθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ὅτι εὐλογήσει σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου
But if the way be far from you and you are not able to carry them, because the place which the Lord your God may choose for his name to be called there is far from you, because the Lord your God will bless you
ἀποδώσῃ αὐτὰ ἀργυρίου καὶ λήμψῃ τὸ ἀργύριον ἐν ταῖς χερσίν σου καὶ πορεύσῃ εἰς τὸν τόπον ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται κύριος ὁ θεός σου αὐτόν
and you shall give them for silver, and you shall take the silver in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose it
δώσεις τὸ ἀργύριον ἐπὶ παντός οὗ ἐὰν ἐπιθυμῇ ἡ ψυχή σου ἐπὶ βουσὶ ἢ ἐπὶ προβάτοις ἐπὶ οἴνῳ ἢ ἐπὶ σικερα ἢ ἐπὶ παντός οὗ ἐὰν ἐπιθυμῇ ἡ ψυχή σου καὶ φάγῃ ἐκεῖ ἐναντίον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου καὶ εὐφρανθήσῃ σὺ καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου
And you shall give the silver for whatever your soul may desire, for oxen or for sheep, for wine or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul may desire; and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your house.
and the Levite who is in your cities, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you
τρία ἔτη ἐξοίσεις πᾶν τὸ ἐπιδέκατον τῶν γενημάτων σου ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐκείνῳ θήσεις αὐτὸ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσίν σου
At the end of three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year; you shall place it in your cities.
ἐλεύσεται ὁ λευίτης ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ μερὶς οὐδὲ κλῆρος μετὰ σοῦ καὶ ὁ προσήλυτος καὶ ὁ ὀρφανὸς καὶ ἡ χήρα ἡ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσίν σου καὶ φάγονται καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται ἵνα εὐλογήσῃ σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔργοις οἷς ἐὰν ποιῇς
And the Levite shall come, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the proselyte and the orphan and the widow who are in your cities, and they shall eat and be filled, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you do.