Deuteronomy 14
1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.
3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these you shall eat.
And every beast that parts the hoof, and separates the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you shall eat.
7 And these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
Nevertheless these 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 to you.
8 And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, you shall not touch their dead bodies.
And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.
9 And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.
These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:
10 And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
And whatever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.
11 You shall eat every clean bird.
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
12 And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
And every raven after his kind,
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.
And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
20 You shall eat every clean bird.
But of all clean fowls you may eat.
21 You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are an holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
22 You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field year by year.
You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
23 And you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
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 firstborn of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 And if the journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord your God will bless you;
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:
25 then you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.
Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose:
26 And you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [you shall lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice and your house,
And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,
27 and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28 After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.
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:
29 And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.
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.
