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.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you 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 you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3 You must not eat any abominable thing.

You 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 you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;

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

the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

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

Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these you shall 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.

And these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these 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 as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, you shall not touch their dead bodies.

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

And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.

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

And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

11 All clean birds you may eat.

You shall eat every clean bird.

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

And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

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

and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,

14 You must not eat any kind of raven,

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

and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,

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

and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

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

and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.

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

All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.

20 You may eat all clean flying things.

You shall eat every clean bird.

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.

You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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

You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your 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 you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your 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 journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord your God will bless you;

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 you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your 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 you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [you shall lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice and your house,

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

and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.

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;

After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.

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 shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.