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 your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make 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 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 No disgusting thing may be your food.

You do not eat any abomination;

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

Any clean bird you eat;

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

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

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

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

14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

and every raven after its kind;

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

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

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

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

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, 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 its kind, and the hoopoe, 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 teeming thing which is flying—it [is] unclean to you; they are not eaten;

20 But all clean birds you may take.

any clean bird you 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.

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

You certainly tithe all the increase of your seed which the field is bringing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

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 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 you bring out all the tithe of your increase in that year, and have placed [it] 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.

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.”