Deuteronomy 14

1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.

“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.

2 For thou art an holy people vnto ye Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all the people that are vpon the earth.

For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

3 Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.

You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

4 These are the beastes, which ye shall eate, the beefe, the sheepe, and the goate,

These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roe buck, and the bugle, and the wilde goate, and the vnicorne, and the wilde oxe, and the chamois.

the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.

6 And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde, that shall ye eate.

Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

7 But these ye shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely: ye camell, nor the hare, nor the cony: for they chewe the cudde, but deuide not ye hoofe: therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you:

But those which chew over again, but do not have a divided hoof, you must not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. Since these chew the cud, but do not have a divided the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

8 Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.

The pig also, since it has a divided hoof, but does not chew over again, shall be unclean. Their flesh shall not be eaten, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

9 These ye shall eate, of all that are in the waters: all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate.

These you shall eat out of all that dwells in the waters: whatever has fins and scales, you shall eat.

10 And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.

Whatever is without fins and scales, you shall not eat, for these are unclean.

11 Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:

All the clean birds, you shall eat.

12 But these are they, whereof ye shall not eate: the eagle, nor the goshawke, nor the osprey,

You shall not eat those that are unclean: such as the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,

13 Nor the glead nor the kite, nor the vulture, after their kind,

the crane, and the vulture, and the kite, according to their kind,

14 Nor all kinde of rauens,

and any kind of raven,

15 Nor the ostrich, nor the nightcrow, nor the semeaw, nor the hawke after her kinde,

and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk, according to their kind,

16 Neither the litle owle, nor the great owle, nor the redshanke,

the heron, and the swan, and the ibis,

17 Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:

and the sea bird, the marsh hen, and the night raven,

18 The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.

the pelican and the plover, each in their kind, likewise the crested hoopoe and the bat.

19 And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.

And anything which crawls and also has little wings shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20 But of all cleane foules ye may eate.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 Ye shall eate of nothing that dieth alone, but thou shalt giue it vnto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eate it: or thou maiest sell it vnto a stranger: for thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.

But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

22 Thou shalt giue the tithe of all the increase of thy seede, that commeth foorth of the fielde yeere by yeere.

Each year, you shall separate the tithes out of all your crops which spring forth from the earth.

23 And thou shalt eate before the Lord thy God (in the place which he shall chose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy kine and of thy sheepe, that thou maiest learne to feare the Lord thy God alway.

And you shall eat these in the sight of the Lord your God, in the place which he will choose, so that his name may be invoked there: the tenth part of your grain and wine and oil, and the firstborn from the herds and your sheep. So may you learn to fear the Lord your God at all times.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to cary it, because the place is farre from thee, where the Lord thy God shall chose to set his Name, when the Lord thy God shall blesse thee,

But when the way and the place which the Lord your God will have chosen is further away, and he will have blessed you, so that you are not able to carry all these things to it,

25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and take the money in thine hand, and goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chose.

you shall sell them all, so as to turn them into money, and you shall carry it in your hand, and you shall set out for the place which the Lord will choose.

26 And thou shalt bestowe the money for whatsoeuer thine heart desireth: whether it be oxe, or sheepe, or wine, or strong drinke, or whatsoeuer thine heart desireth: and shalt eate it there before the Lord thy God, and reioyce, both thou, and thine household.

And you shall buy with the same money whatever pleases you, either from the herds or from the sheep, and also wine and liquor, and all that your soul desires. And you shall eat in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall feast: you and your household.

27 And the Leuite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.

As for the Levite, who is within your gates, take care that you do not abandon him, for he has no other portion within your possession.

28 At the end of three yeere thou shalt bring foorth all the tithes of thine increase of the same yeere, and lay it vp within thy gates.

In the third year, you shall separate another tenth part of all the things which spring forth for you at that time, and you shall store it within your gates.

29 Then ye Leuite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe, which are within thy gates, and shall eate, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest.

And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”