Deuteronomy 14
1 You are the children of the Lord your God. Don't mutilate yourselves or shave your forehead like pagans do when they mourn the dead,
Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, —ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 because you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. The Lord chose you as his special people out of all the nations on earth.
For, a holy people, thou art unto Yahweh thy God, —and, of thee, did Yahweh make choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.
3 You must not eat anything repulsive.
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the animals that you are allowed to eat: cattle, sheep, goats,
These, are the beasts which ye may eat, —the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats;
5 deer, gazelles, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep.
the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, —and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.
6 You can eat any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.
And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall ye eat.
7 But you are not allowed to eat those that either chew the cud or have a divided hoof. This includes: camels, rabbits, and rock hyraxes. Even though they chew the cud, they don't have a divided hoof. You must treat them as unclean.
Nevertheless these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, —the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are unto you.
8 The same applies to the pig. Even though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. So you must treat it as unclean. You must not eat its meat or touch its dead body.
And, the swine, because though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, —of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, shall ye not touch.
9 When it comes to creatures that live in the water, you are allowed to eat anything that has fins and scales.
These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, —whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may eat;
10 But you must not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. You must treat them as unclean.
and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.
11 You are allowed to eat any clean bird.
Of every clean bird, ye may eat;
12 But you must not eat the following: eagle, griffon vulture, bearded vulture,
saving these, of which ye may not eat, —the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;
13 buzzard, kites, any kind of falcon,
and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon after its kind;
14 any member of the crow family,
and every raven after its kind;
15 tawny owl, long-eared owl, gulls, any kind of hawk,
and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;
16 little owl, eagle owl, barn owl,
and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;
17 desert owl, Egyptian vulture, fish owl,
and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;
18 storks, any kind of heron, hoopoe, or bats.
and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, —and the mountain-cock, and the bat.
19 All insects that fly are unclean to you; you must not eat them.
And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, —they, shall not be eaten.
20 But you are allowed to eat any clean animal that has wings.
All clean fowls, ye may eat.
21 You must not eat any animal that dies. You can give it to a foreigner in your town, and they can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. You, however, are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.
22 Make sure you pay a tithe of every crop grown each year in your fields.
Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase of thy seed, —which the field bringeth forth year by year.
23 You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose to live with you, so that you will learn to always respect the Lord your God.
And thou shalt eat before Yahweh thy God—in the place which he shall choose to make a habitation for his name there, —the tithe of thy corn thy new wine and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, —that thou mayest learn to revere Yahweh thy God all the days.
24 However, if it's too far to carry all the tithe that the Lord your God has blessed you with, because the place where the Lord your God will choose to live with you is too distant,
But, when the way becometh too long for thee because thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far for thee which Yahweh thy God shall choose to put his name there, —because Yahweh thy God blesseth thee,
25 then you can exchange it for money, take the money with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.
then shalt thou turn it into silver, —and shalt bind up the silver in thy hand, and shalt journey unto the place, which Yahweh thy God shall choose;
26 Then you can spend the money on anything you like—cattle, sheep, wine, alcoholic drink, or anything else you want. Then you can have a feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and celebrate with your family.
and shalt turn the silver into whatsoever thy soul desireth—of the herd or of the flock, or of wine or of strong drink, or of whatsoever thy soul shall ask thee for, —and shalt eat it there, before Yahweh thy God, and shalt rejoice, thou and thy household,
27 Don't forget to take care of the Levites in your town, because they don't have any share in the allotment of land.
and, the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him, —for he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of every third year, collect a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it in your town.
At the end of three years, shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in that year, —and shalt lay it up within thy gates;
29 This way the Levites (who don't have any share in the allotment of land), the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows in your town will be provided with what they need. The Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
and the Levite shall come in—because he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee—and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, —that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.
