The Wilderness Years

Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:

That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:

Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,

Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.

And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.

And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

Eat not the things that are unclean.

These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

And all of the raven's kind: