Deuteronomy 14

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

“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of 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, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

3 You do not eat any abomination;

You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

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

These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

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

the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.

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 which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, 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;

But those which chew over again, but do not have a divided hoof, you must not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. Since these chew the cud, but do not have a divided the hoof, they shall be 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.

The pig also, since it has a divided hoof, but does not chew over again, shall be unclean. Their flesh shall not be eaten, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

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

These you shall eat out of all that dwells in the waters: whatever has fins and scales, you shall eat.

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

Whatever is without fins and scales, you shall not eat, for these are unclean.

11 Any clean bird you eat;

All the clean birds, you shall eat.

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

You shall not eat those that are unclean: such as the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,

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

the crane, and the vulture, and the kite, according to their kind,

14 and every raven after its kind;

and any kind of raven,

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

and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk, according to their kind,

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

the heron, and the swan, and the ibis,

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

and the sea bird, the marsh hen, and the night raven,

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

the pelican and the plover, each in their kind, likewise the crested hoopoe and the bat.

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

And anything which crawls and also has little wings shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20 any clean bird you eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

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.

But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

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

Each year, you shall separate the tithes out of all your crops which spring forth from the earth.

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 these in the sight of the Lord your God, in the place which he will choose, so that his name may be invoked there: the tenth part of your grain and wine and oil, and the firstborn from the herds and your sheep. So may you learn to fear the Lord your God at all times.

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—

But when the way and the place which the Lord your God will have chosen is further away, and he will have blessed you, so that you are not able to carry all these things to it,

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;

you shall sell them all, so as to turn them into money, and you shall carry it in your hand, and you shall set out for the place which the Lord will 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 buy with the same money whatever pleases you, either from the herds or from the sheep, and also wine and liquor, and all that your soul desires. And you shall eat in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall feast: you and your household.

27 As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.

As for the Levite, who is within your gates, take care that you do not abandon him, for he has no other portion within your possession.

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;

In the third year, you shall separate another tenth part of all the things which spring forth for you at that time, and you shall store it within your gates.

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, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”