Deuteronomy 14

1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

3 You must not eat any detestable thing.

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

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

6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

7 But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

8 as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

11 You may eat any clean bird,

12 but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

13 the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,

14 any kind of raven,

15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

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

17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

20 But you may eat any clean bird.

21 You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22 You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

23 And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

24 But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

25 then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

26 Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

27 And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

28 At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

29 Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

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.

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

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, 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.

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.

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

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

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

10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.

11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

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

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

14 And every raven after his kind,

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

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

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

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

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

20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.

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

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

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 corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

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

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

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

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

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

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which [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 thine hand which thou doest.

1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not pierce yourselves with marks, neither shall ye shave your eyes above a dead man.

2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: and the LORD hath chosen thee to be his own out of all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 thou shalt not eat abomination.

4 And this is the beast which ye shall eat: oxen, sheep, goats,

5 deer, roe deer, buffalo, ibex, tenderloin, urochs and eland

6 And every beast that divideth his hoof, and cheweth the cud thereof, ye shall eat.

7 But that which cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, ye shall not eat. And the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, shall be unclean unto you.

8 The swine, though he cleave the hoof, yet chew the cud not, shall be unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat their flesh, neither shall ye touch their carcase.

9 This is that ye shall eat of every thing that is in the waters: every thing that hath raft feathers and scales ye shall eat.

10 But whatsoever hath not the feathers of a raft, nor the scales thereof, eat ye not: for it is unclean unto you. Eleven: Eat all clean birds.

12 And these are they which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the hawk, and the fishhawk;

13 the diver, the harrier, the vulture with his kind

14 and all ravens with their kind,

15 the ostrich, the night owl, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk with its kind,

16 the little owl, the eagle owl, the bat,

17 the bittern, the stork, the swan,

18 the heron, the jay with its kind, the hoopoe, the swallow;

19 And every fowl that creepeth shall be unclean unto you, and ye shall not eat it.

20 The clean fowl ye shall eat.

21 Ye shall eat no carcase: thou shalt give it to the stranger that is within thy gates to eat, or sell it to a stranger: for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil the kid, because it is still suckling its mother.

22 Thou shalt set apart tithes every year of all the increase of thy seed which cometh out of thy field;

23 And thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God in the place which he hath named, that his name may dwell there: of the tenth of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thy oil, and of the firstborn of thy oxen and of thy sheep; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God all the days of thy life.

24 But if the way be too much for thee, that thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there (for the LORD thy God hath blessed thee),

25 Give it for money, and take the money in thine hand, and go into the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen,

26 And give money for all that thy soul lusteth after, whether it be oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or any thing that thy soul desireth. And there eat before the LORD thy God, and be merry, thou and thy house.

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

28 For three years thou shalt set apart all the tithes of thine income of that year, and shalt leave them in thy gate.

29 Then shall the Levite, which hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, come and eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.