Deuteronomy 14
1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
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;
2 For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
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.
3 Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
No disgusting thing may be your food.
4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.
6 Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.
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.
7 And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
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.
8 And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead bodies.
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.
9 And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.
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.
10 And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
11 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
All clean birds may be used for food.
12 And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;
Every raven, and all birds of that sort;
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew,
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.
Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
20 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
But all clean birds you may take.
21 Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
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.
22 Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.
Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
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.
24 And if the journey be too far for thee, and thou art not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee;
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;
25 then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
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;
26 And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [thou shalt lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy house,
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;
27 and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.
And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.
28 After three years thou shalt bring out all the tithes of thy fruits, in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy cities.
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:
29 And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.
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.
