Deuteronomy 14

1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;

“You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 Eat not the things that are unclean.

You do not eat any abomination;

4 These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

5 The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer;

6 Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

7 But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax, for they are bringing up the cud, but the hoof has not divided—they [are] unclean to you;

8 The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud—it [is] unclean to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass.

9 These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat;

10 Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.

11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.

Any clean bird you eat;

12 The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

and these [are] they of which you do not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

13 The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,

14 And all of the raven’s kind:

and every raven after its kind;

15 And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

and the ostrich, and the nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;

16 The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

the little owl, and the great owl, and the waterhen,

17 And the cormorant, the porphyrion, and the night crow,

and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, and the cormorant,

18 The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

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

19 Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

And every teeming thing which is flying—it [is] unclean to you; they are not eaten;

20 All that is clean, you shall eat.

any clean bird you eat.

21 But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

22 Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

You certainly tithe all the increase of your seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;

23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

and you have eaten before your God YHWH, in the place where He chooses to cause His Name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd, and of your flock, so that you learn to fear your God YHWH [for] all the days.

24 But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

And when the way is too much for you, that you are not able to carry it—when the place is too far off from you which your God YHWH chooses to put His Name there, when your God YHWH blesses you—

25 Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

then you have given [it] in money, and have bound up the money in your hand, and gone to the place on which your God YHWH fixes;

26 And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

and you have given the money for anything which your soul desires, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for anything which your soul asks for, and you have eaten before your God YHWH there, and you have rejoiced, you and your house.

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.

28 The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

At the end of three years you bring out all the tithe of your increase in that year, and have placed [it] within your gates;

29 And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

and the Levite has come in—for he has no part and inheritance with you—and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that your God YHWH blesses you in all the work of your hand which you do.”