Deuteronomy 14

1 'Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for 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 thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be His own treasure out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

3 'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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

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

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

the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.

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.

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof wholly cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye may 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;

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto 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.

and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

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

These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;

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

and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 'Any clean bird ye do eat;

Of all clean birds ye may eat.

12 and these [are] they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;

13 and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,

and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds;

14 and every raven after its kind;

and every raven after its kinds;

15 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

16 the [little] owl, and the [great] owl, and the swan,

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

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

and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;

and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19 and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten;

And all winged swarming things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

20 any clean fowl ye do eat.

Of all clean winged things ye may 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.

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself; thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

22 'Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;

Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which is brought forth in the field year by year.

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 thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

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; —

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

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;

then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall 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 thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy 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.

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

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;

At the end of every three years, even in the same year, thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase, and shall lay it up within thy 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, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that 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.