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.

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

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 Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.

You do not eat any abomination;

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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:

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 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.

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

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

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

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

11 Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:

Any clean bird you eat;

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

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

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

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

14 Nor all kinde of rauens,

and every raven after its kind;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20 But of all cleane foules ye may eate.

any clean bird you 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.

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

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

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 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 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,

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 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.

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 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 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 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, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.

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.

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 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 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.”