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] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make 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 you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

3 You must not eat any abominable thing.

You do not eat any abomination;

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

this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

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

deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer;

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 dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

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.

Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax, for they are bringing up the cud, but the hoof has not divided—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 sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud—it [is] unclean to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass.

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

This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat;

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

and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.

11 All clean birds you may eat.

Any clean bird you eat;

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

and these [are] they of which you do not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

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

and the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after 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 nightjar [[or male ostrich]], and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;

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

the little owl, and the great owl, and the waterhen,

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

and the pelican, and the Egyptian 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 after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

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

And every teeming thing which is flying—it [is] unclean to you; they are not eaten;

20 You may eat all clean flying things.

any clean bird you 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.

You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do 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.

You certainly tithe all the increase of your seed which the field is bringing forth 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 have eaten before your God YHWH, in the place where He chooses to cause His Name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd, and of your flock, so that you learn to fear your God YHWH [for] all the days.

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 when the way is too much for you, that you are not able to carry it—when the place is too far off from you which your God YHWH chooses to put His Name there, when your God YHWH blesses 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 have given [it] in money, and have bound up the money in your hand, and gone to the place on which your God YHWH fixes;

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 have given the money for anything which your soul desires, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for anything which your soul asks for, and you have eaten before your God YHWH there, and you have rejoiced, you and your house.

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

As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and 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;

At the end of three years you bring out all the tithe of your increase in that year, and have placed [it] within your 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 has come in—for he has no part and inheritance with you—and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that your God YHWH blesses you in all the work of your hand which you do.”