Deuteronomy 14

1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.

2 For thou art an holy people to the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a special people to himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

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

These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

the stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

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

But those which chew over again, but do not have a divided hoof, you must not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. Since these chew the cud, but do not have a divided the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, is unclean to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

The pig also, since it has a divided hoof, but does not chew over again, shall be unclean. Their flesh shall not be eaten, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

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

These you shall eat out of all that dwells in the waters: whatever has fins and scales, you shall eat.

10 And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean to you.

Whatever is without fins and scales, you shall not eat, for these are unclean.

11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

All the clean birds, you shall eat.

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

You shall not eat those that are unclean: such as the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

the crane, and the vulture, and the kite, according to their kind,

14 And every raven after his kind,

and any kind of raven,

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

and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk, according to their kind,

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

the heron, and the swan, and the ibis,

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

and the sea bird, the marsh hen, and the night raven,

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

the pelican and the plover, each in their kind, likewise the crested hoopoe and the bat.

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

And anything which crawls and also has little wings shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it to the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to an alien: for thou art an holy people to the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Each year, you shall separate the tithes out of all your crops which spring forth from the earth.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

And you shall eat these in the sight of the Lord your God, in the place which he will choose, so that his name may be invoked there: the tenth part of your grain and wine and oil, and the firstborn from the herds and your sheep. So may you learn to fear the Lord your God at all times.

24 And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

But when the way and the place which the Lord your God will have chosen is further away, and he will have blessed you, so that you are not able to carry all these things to it,

25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

you shall sell them all, so as to turn them into money, and you shall carry it in your hand, and you shall set out for the place which the Lord will choose.

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household,

And you shall buy with the same money whatever pleases you, either from the herds or from the sheep, and also wine and liquor, and all that your soul desires. And you shall eat in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall feast: you and your household.

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

As for the Levite, who is within your gates, take care that you do not abandon him, for he has no other portion within your possession.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thy increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

In the third year, you shall separate another tenth part of all the things which spring forth for you at that time, and you shall store it within your gates.

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, ) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”