Deuteronomy 14

1 All of you are the children of the LORD your God: all of you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

2 For you are an holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be an exclusive people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

No disgusting thing may be your food.

4 These are the beasts which all of you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that all of you shall eat.

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

7 Nevertheless these all of you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean unto you: all of you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

9 These all of you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall all of you eat:

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

10 And whatsoever has not fins and scales all of you may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

11 Of all clean birds all of you shall eat.

All clean birds may be used for food.

12 But these are they of which all of you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the buzzard,

But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

13 And the vulture, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

14 And every raven after his kind,

Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

17 And the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the cormorant,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 And every creeping thing that flies is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

20 But of all clean fowls all of you may eat.

But all clean birds you may take.

21 All of you shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto an foreigner: for you are an holy people unto the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

22 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

24 And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:

And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

25 Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose:

Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

26 And you shall bestow that money for whatsoever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

27 And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

28 At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

29 And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you, ) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.