neither I showed to thee anything taken of a beast; I yielded all [the] harm; whatever thing perished by theft, thou askedest of me;
Was I not with thee therefore twenty years? Thy sheep and goats were not barren, I ate not the rams of thy flock,
I was anguished in day and night with heat and frost, and sleep fled from mine eyes;
Ye shall be holy men to me; ye shall not eat the flesh that is before-tasted of beasts, but ye shall cast it forth to hounds.
as well in ox, as in ass, and in sheep, and in clothes; and in what-ever thing may bring in harm, the cause of ever either shall come to the judges, and if they deem him guilty, he shall restore the double to his neighbour.
He shall not eat a thing dead by itself, and taken of a beast, neither he shall be defouled in those things; I am the Lord.
And shepherds were in the same country, waking and keeping the watches of the night on their flock.