Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.

Ye are the sons of Jehovah your God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

For thou are a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

3 You must not eat any abominable thing.

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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

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

6 You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.

And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

7 Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these ye shall not eat: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you,

8 The pig is unclean to you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.

and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you. Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

9 Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;

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

10 but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.

And whatever does not have fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

11 All clean birds you may eat.

Of all clean birds ye may eat,

12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

but these are those of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,

13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.

and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite according to its kind,

14 You must not eat any kind of raven,

and every raven after its kind,

15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk according to its kind,

16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

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

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

18 You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

and the stork, and the heron according to its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19 All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.

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

20 You may eat all clean flying things.

Of all clean birds ye may eat.

21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

22 You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.

Thou shall surely tithe all the increase of thy seed; that which comes forth from the field year by year.

23 You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.

And thou shall eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou may learn to fear Jehovah thy God always.

24 If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,

And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose to set his name there when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee,

25 you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.

then thou shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shall go to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose.

26 There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.

And thou shall bestow the money for whatever thy soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asks of thee. And thou shall eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shall rejoice, thou and thy household.

27 The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

And the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shall not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years you will present all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and you will store it up within your gates;

At the end of every three years thou shall bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates.

29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou do.