Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

For a holy people art thou unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath made choice of thee to be unto himself a peculiar nation above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth.

3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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

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

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the chamois, and the gazelle, and the wild ox, and the antelope.

6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

And every beast that hath parted hoofs, and whose feet are cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts—that alone may ye eat.

7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, and of those that possess the divided cloven hoof: The camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; unclean are they unto you;

8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you; of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their dead carcass shall ye not touch.

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

This may ye eat of all that is in the waters: all that hath fins and scales may ye eat;

10 You shall not eat whatever does not have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales shall ye not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

Every clean bird may ye eat.

12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

But these are they which ye shall not eat of them: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,

13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,

And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14 every raven of any kind,

And every raven after his kind,

15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,

And the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,

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

The little owl, and the great owl and the swan,

17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

And the stork, and the heron after his kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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

And every winged insect is unclean unto you: it shall not be eaten.

20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

All clean fowls may ye eat.

21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: unto the stranger that is in thy gates canst thou give it, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.

Thou shalt truly tithe all the produce of thy seed, which the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first-born of thy herds and of thy flocks; in order that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days.

24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; because the place is too far from thee, which the Lord thy God will choose to set his name there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee:

25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and thou shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose;

26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

And thou shalt lay out that money for whatsoever thy soul longeth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household.

27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

And the Levite, who is within thy gates, him shalt thou not forsake; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

At the end of three years shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thy produce in the same year, and thou shalt lay it down within thy gates:

29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

And then shall come the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, with the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied; in order that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.