The first half coves the clean and unclean meats again. New things - animals that died of natural deaths can be sold to foreigners. It ends with the no cooking a goat in its mother's milk. I first thought this may have been a pagan practice, but its placement here suggests it's a dietary rule. Who knows. Maybe animals have dignity and this would violate that.
The second half covers using a harvest tithe to attend the various feasts. Every third year, the tithe goes to the Levites. So, are there 3 tithes? Or just one tithe with different uses, depending on the year? Based on this chapter alone, you would think it's the latter.
Also, we see a requirement to use the tithe to drink alcohol at the feast. (v. 26)
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