Deuteronomy 14
1 Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, —ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
2 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.
Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Eat not the things that are unclean.
4 These, are the beasts which ye may eat, —the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats;
These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
5 the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, —and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.
The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall ye eat.
Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.
7 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.
But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
8 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.
The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
9 These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, —whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may eat;
These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
10 and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
11 Of every clean bird, ye may eat;
All birds that are clean you shall eat.
12 saving these, of which ye may not eat, —the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;
The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,
13 and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon after its kind;
The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:
14 and every raven after its kind;
And all of the raven’s kind:
15 and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;
And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
16 and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;
The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;
And the cormorant, the porphyrion, and the night crow,
18 and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, —and the mountain-cock, and the bat.
The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.
19 And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, —they, shall not be eaten.
Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.
20 All clean fowls, ye may eat.
All that is clean, you shall eat.
21 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.
But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
22 Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase of thy seed, —which the field bringeth forth year by year.
Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,
23 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.
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.
24 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,
But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,
25 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;
Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
26 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,
And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:
27 and, the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him, —for he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
28 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;
The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.
29 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.
And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
