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;

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 taken you to be his special people out of all the nations 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 No disgusting thing may be your food.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

Every clean bird may ye eat.

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

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

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

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

14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

And every raven after his kind,

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

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

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

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

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

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

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

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

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

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

20 But all clean birds you may take.

All clean fowls may ye eat.

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.

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

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

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 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 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;

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 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 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 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;

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

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 take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

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 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.

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.