Deuteronomy 14
1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
You are the children of the LORD your God. You 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 your God has chosen you 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 chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
6 Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud amongst beasts, these you shall eat.
Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, amongst the animals, you may eat.
7 And these you 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 these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t 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; you shall not eat of their flesh, you shall not touch their dead bodies.
The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
9 And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.
These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
10 And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
11 You shall eat every clean bird.
Of all clean birds you may eat.
12 And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,
every raven of any kind,
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.
All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
20 You shall eat every clean bird.
Of all clean birds you may eat.
21 You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living amongst you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22 You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field year by year.
You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
23 And you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 And if the journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord your God will bless you;
If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,
25 then you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.
then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.
26 And you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [you shall lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice and your house,
You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27 and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.
At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
29 And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living amongst you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
