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 the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face 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 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 Eat not the things that are unclean.

You must not eat any abominable thing.

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

These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

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

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 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.

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

Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;

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

but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.

11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.

All clean birds you may eat.

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

But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

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

the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.

14 And all of the raven’s kind:

You must not eat any kind of raven,

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

and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,

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

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

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

the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

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

You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

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

All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.

20 All that is clean, you shall eat.

You may eat all clean flying things.

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

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 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.

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 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,

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 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:

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 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:

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 within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor 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 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 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, 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.