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;

Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, —ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put 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, thou art unto Yahweh thy God, —and, of thee, did Yahweh make choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

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 young of sheep, and the young of goats;

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 gazelle and the roebuck, —and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, 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.

And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall 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 them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, —the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are 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 though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, —of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, 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.

These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, —whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may 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, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

Of every clean bird, ye may eat;

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

saving these, of which ye may not eat, —the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;

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

and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon 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 female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;

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

and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;

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

and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, —and the mountain-cock, 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, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, —they, shall not be eaten.

20 But all clean birds you may take.

All clean fowls, ye may 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: to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

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

Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase 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 Yahweh thy God—in the place which he shall choose to make a habitation for his name there, —the tithe of thy corn thy new wine and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, —that thou mayest learn to revere Yahweh 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;

But, when the way becometh too long for thee because thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far for thee which Yahweh thy God shall choose to put his name there, —because Yahweh thy God blesseth 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 silver, —and shalt bind up the silver in thy hand, and shalt journey unto the place, which Yahweh thy God shall 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 shalt turn the silver into whatsoever thy soul desireth—of the herd or of the flock, or of wine or of strong drink, or of whatsoever thy soul shall ask thee for, —and shalt eat it there, before Yahweh thy God, and 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, thou shalt not forsake him, —for he hath neither 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 thine increase in that year, —and shalt lay it up 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 the Levite shall come in—because he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee—and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, —that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.