Deuteronomy 14

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

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your 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 a holy people art thou unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath made choice of thee to be unto himself a peculiar nation above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth.

3 You do not eat any abomination;

Thou shalt 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 ye may eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the chamois, and the gazelle, and the wild ox, and the antelope.

6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

And every beast that hath parted hoofs, and whose feet are cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts—that alone may ye 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;

Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, and of those that possess the divided cloven hoof: The camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; unclean are they unto 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 the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you; of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their dead carcass shall ye not touch.

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

This may ye eat of all that is in the waters: all that hath fins and scales may ye eat;

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

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales shall ye not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 Any clean bird you eat;

Every clean bird may ye eat.

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

But these are they which ye shall not eat of them: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,

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

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

14 and every raven after its kind;

And every raven after his kind,

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

And the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,

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

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

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

And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

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

And the stork, and the heron after his kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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

And every winged insect is unclean unto you: it shall not be eaten.

20 any clean bird you eat.

All clean fowls may ye 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.

Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: unto the stranger that is in thy gates canst thou give it, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

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

Thou shalt truly tithe all the produce of thy seed, which the field bringeth forth 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 thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first-born of thy herds and of thy flocks; in order that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days.

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 way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; because the place is too far from thee, which the Lord thy God will choose to set his name there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee:

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 shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and thou shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God 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 thou shalt lay out that money for whatsoever thy soul longeth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy 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.

And the Levite, who is within thy gates, him shalt thou not forsake; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

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;

At the end of three years shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thy produce in the same year, and thou shalt lay it down within thy 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 then shall come the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, with the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied; in order that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.