Deuteronomy 14

1 'Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make 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 a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

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 dost not eat any abominable thing;

You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

4 'this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

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

5 hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;

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

6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts — it ye do eat.

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

7 'Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they [are] 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 sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud, unclean it [is] to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

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 'This ye do eat of all that [are] in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;

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

10 and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.

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

11 'Any clean bird ye do eat;

All the clean birds, you shall eat.

12 and these [are] they of which ye do 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 its kind,

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

14 and every raven after its kind;

and any kind of raven,

15 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its 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 its 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 teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten;

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

20 any clean fowl ye do eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 'Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who [is] within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for a holy people thou [art] to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its 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 dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing 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 hast eaten before Jehovah thy God, in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, so that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days.

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 when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it — when the place is too far off from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, when Jehovah thy God doth bless 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 thou hast given [it] in money, and hast bound up the money in thy hand, and gone unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix;

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 hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

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 As to the Levite who [is] within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and 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 dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed [it] 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 come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

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.”