Deuteronomy 14

1 Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.

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 unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon 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 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

No disgusting thing may be your food.

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

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

5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep.

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

6 And every beast that hath cloven hoofs, and the feet quite split open into double hoofs, [and] which cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that 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 Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs — they shall be unclean unto 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 the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, yet cheweth not the cud — it shall be unclean unto you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch.

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 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat;

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 but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.

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

11 All clean birds shall ye eat.

All clean birds may be used for food.

12 But these are they of which 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 falcon, and the kite, and the black kite after its kind;

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

14 and every raven after its kind;

Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

15 and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;

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

16 the owl, and the ibis and the swan,

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

17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

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

19 And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

20 All clean fowls shall ye eat.

But all clean birds you may take.

21 Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its 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 truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the 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 before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually.

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 way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God blesseth 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 shalt thou give it for money, and bind the money together in thy hand, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God will 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 whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, 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 thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for he hath no portion nor 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 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates;

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 — for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee — and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

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.