Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the people of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any 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 the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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 shall not eat any abominable thing.

You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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

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

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

6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, 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 The pig, because it has a split hoof, but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

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 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;

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

10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

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

11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

All the clean birds, you shall eat.

12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the 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 buzzard, 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 owl, 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 horned owl,

the heron, and the swan, and the ibis,

17 and the pelican, and the 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 All winged crawling creatures are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

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

20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 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 the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat 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 shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

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

23 You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, 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 the LORD your God always.

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

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 shall bestow 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; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

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 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor 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 every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up 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, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless 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.”