Deuteronomy 14

1 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;

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

2 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.

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.

3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

You must not eat any detestable thing.

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

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

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

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

6 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.

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

7 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.

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,

8 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.

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.

9 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.

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

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

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

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

You may eat any clean bird,

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

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

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

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

14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

any kind of raven,

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

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

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

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

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

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

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

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

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

20 But all clean birds you may take.

But you may eat any clean bird.

21 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.

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.

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

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

23 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.

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.

24 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;

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,

25 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;

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

26 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;

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.

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

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

28 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:

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

29 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.

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.