Deuteronomy 14

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

Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, —ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put 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, thou art unto Yahweh thy God, —and, of thee, did Yahweh make choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

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 young of sheep, and the young of goats;

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

the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, —and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.

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 parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall 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 them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, —the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are 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 though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, —of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, shall ye not touch.

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

These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, —whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may 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, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.

11 Any clean bird you eat;

Of every clean bird, ye may eat;

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

saving these, of which ye may not eat, —the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;

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

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

14 and every raven after its kind;

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 female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;

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

and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;

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

and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;

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

and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, —and the mountain-cock, and the bat.

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

And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, —they, shall not be eaten.

20 any clean bird you eat.

All clean fowls, ye may 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: to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

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

Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase 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 Yahweh thy God—in the place which he shall choose to make a habitation for his name there, —the tithe of thy corn thy new wine and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, —that thou mayest learn to revere Yahweh 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—

But, when the way becometh too long for thee because thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far for thee which Yahweh thy God shall choose to put his name there, —because Yahweh thy God blesseth 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 silver, —and shalt bind up the silver in thy hand, and shalt journey unto the place, which Yahweh thy 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 shalt turn the silver into whatsoever thy soul desireth—of the herd or of the flock, or of wine or of strong drink, or of whatsoever thy soul shall ask thee for, —and shalt eat it there, before Yahweh thy God, and 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, thou shalt not forsake him, —for he hath neither 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 thine increase in that year, —and shalt lay it up 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 the Levite shall come in—because he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee—and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, —that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.