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.

You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes 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.

For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

4 These, are the beasts which ye may eat, —the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats;

These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, 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 roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

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.

And every beast that parts the hoof, and separates the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that 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.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are 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.

And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

9 These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, —whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may eat;

These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:

10 and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.

And whatever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.

11 Of every clean bird, ye may eat;

Of all clean birds you shall eat.

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

But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon 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 female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

16 and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;

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

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

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

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

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

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

And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

20 All clean fowls, ye may eat.

But of all clean fowls you may 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.

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are an holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

22 Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase of thy seed, —which the field bringeth forth year by year.

You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

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 you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

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,

And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:

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;

Then shall you 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:

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 you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

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 your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

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;

At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your 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, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you, ) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which 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.