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 Yahweh 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 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 Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are 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 animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

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 animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may 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 you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they 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.

The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. 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 may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

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

You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

11 Any clean bird you eat;

Of all clean birds you may 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 of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

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

the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,

14 and every raven after its kind;

every raven of any kind,

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

the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,

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

the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

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

the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

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

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

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

All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

20 any clean bird you eat.

Of all clean birds you 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.

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the 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.

You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh 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—

If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses 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 turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh 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.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, 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.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor 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;

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and 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.”

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.