Deuteronomy 14

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

“You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your 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 you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 You must not eat any detestable thing.

You do not eat any abomination;

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

this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

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

deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer;

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

and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

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,

Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax, for they are bringing up the cud, but the hoof has not divided—they [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 the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud—it [is] unclean to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass.

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

This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat;

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

and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.

11 You may eat any clean bird,

Any clean bird you eat;

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

and these [are] they of which you do not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

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

and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,

14 any kind of raven,

and every raven after its kind;

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

and the ostrich, and the nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;

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

the little owl, and the great owl, and the waterhen,

17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, and the cormorant,

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

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

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

And every teeming thing which is flying—it [is] unclean to you; they are not eaten;

20 But you may eat any clean bird.

any clean bird you eat.

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.

You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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

You certainly tithe all the increase of your seed which the field is bringing forth 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 you have eaten before your God YHWH, in the place where He chooses to cause His Name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd, and of your flock, so that you learn to fear your God YHWH [for] all the days.

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 when the way is too much for you, that you are not able to carry it—when the place is too far off from you which your God YHWH chooses to put His Name there, when your God YHWH blesses you—

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

then you have given [it] in money, and have bound up the money in your hand, and gone to the place on which your God YHWH fixes;

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 you have given the money for anything which your soul desires, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for anything which your soul asks for, and you have eaten before your God YHWH there, and you have rejoiced, you and your house.

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

As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.

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.

At the end of three years you bring out all the tithe of your increase in that year, and have placed [it] within your gates;

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 has come in—for he has no part and inheritance with you—and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that your God YHWH blesses you in all the work of your hand which you do.”