< Deuteronomy 14 >

1 “You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
2 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.
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.
3 You do not eat any abomination;
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,
These [are] the beasts which you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
5 deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer;
the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.
Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud amongst beasts, these you shall eat.
7 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;
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.
8 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.
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.
9 This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat;
And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.
10 and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.
And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
11 Any clean bird you eat;
You shall eat every clean bird.
12 and these [are] they of which you do not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,
And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
13 and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,
and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
14 and every raven after its kind;
15 and the ostrich, and the nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;
and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the waterhen,
and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, and the cormorant,
and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
19 And every teeming thing which is flying—it [is] unclean to you; they are not eaten;
All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.
20 any clean bird you eat.
You shall eat every clean bird.
21 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.
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.
22 You certainly tithe all the increase of your seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;
You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field year by year.
23 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.
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.
24 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—
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;
25 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;
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.
26 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.
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,
27 As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.
and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
28 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;
After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.
29 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.”
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.

< Deuteronomy 14 >