Deuteronomy 14
1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.
3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Eat not the things that are unclean.
4 These [are] the beasts which you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
6 Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these you shall eat.
Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.
7 And these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
8 And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, you shall not touch their dead bodies.
The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
9 And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.
These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
11 You shall eat every clean bird.
All birds that are clean you shall eat.
12 And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:
And all of the raven’s kind:
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
And the cormorant, the porphyrion, and the night crow,
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.
Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.
20 You shall eat every clean bird.
All that is clean, you shall eat.
21 You shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
22 You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field year by year.
Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,
23 And you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.
24 And if the journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord your God will bless you;
But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,
25 then you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.
Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
26 And you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [you shall lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice and your house,
And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:
27 and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
28 After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.
The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.
29 And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.
And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
