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 ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for 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.

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.

3 Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.

Eat not the things that are unclean.

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

These are the beasts that you shall 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 hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

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 that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

11 Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

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

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

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

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

14 Nor all kinde of rauens,

And all of the raven’s kind:

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

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

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

The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

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

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

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

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

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

Every thing that creepeth, and hath 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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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 thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

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.

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:

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 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:

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

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

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.

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 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.