Deuteronomy 14

1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3 You must not eat any detestable thing.

Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.

7 But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.

8 as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead bodies.

9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.

10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

11 You may eat any clean bird,

Ye shall eat every clean bird.

12 but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

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

and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,

14 any kind of raven,

15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

and the sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew,

16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,

17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.

19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.

20 But you may eat any clean bird.

Ye shall eat every clean bird.

21 You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

22 You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.

23 And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

24 But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

And if the journey be too far for thee, and thou art not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee;

25 then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.

26 Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [thou shalt lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy house,

27 And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

After three years thou shalt bring out all the tithes of thy fruits, in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy cities.

29 Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.