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 people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for 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 nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.
3 Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
You must not eat any abominable thing.
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 animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, 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.
You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.
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.
Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
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.
The pig is unclean to you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.
9 And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.
Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;
10 And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.
11 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
All clean birds you may eat.
12 And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
You must not eat any kind of raven,
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew,
and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.
All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.
20 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
You may eat all clean flying things.
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 must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat 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.
You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after 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.
You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.
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;
If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses 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.
you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
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,
There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.
The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
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 you will present all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and you will store it up within your gates;
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 portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.
