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.

Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for 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.

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.

3 Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.

Eat not the things that are unclean.

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

These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and 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 and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

11 Of all clean birds ye may eat,

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

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

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

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

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

14 and every raven after its kind,

And all of the raven’s kind:

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

And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

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

The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

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

And the cormorant, the porphyrion, and the night crow,

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

The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

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

Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

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.

But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

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

Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

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 thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God 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,

But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

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.

Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

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 thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy 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 the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

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.

The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

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 that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.