Deuteronomy 14

1 Ye are the sons of Jehovah your God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

2 For thou are a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3 Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.

No disgusting thing may be your food.

4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.

The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

7 Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these ye shall not eat: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you,

But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

8 and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you. Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales ye may eat.

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

10 And whatever does not have fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

11 Of all clean birds ye may eat,

All clean birds may be used for food.

12 but these are those of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,

But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite according to its kind,

The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

14 and every raven after its kind,

Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk according to its kind,

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

18 and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 And all winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.

But all clean birds you may take.

21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

22 Thou shall surely tithe all the increase of thy seed; that which comes forth from the field year by year.

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

23 And thou shall eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou may learn to fear Jehovah thy God always.

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

24 And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose to set his name there when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee,

And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

25 then thou shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shall go to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose.

Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

26 And thou shall bestow the money for whatever thy soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asks of thee. And thou shall eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shall rejoice, thou and thy household.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

27 And the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shall not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with thee.

And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

28 At the end of every three years thou shall bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates.

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou do.

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.