< Deuteronomy 14 >

1 [are] children You of Yahweh God your not you will cut yourselves and not you will make baldness between eyes your to a dead [person].
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For [are] a people holy you to Yahweh God your and you he has chosen Yahweh to become for him a people of possession from all the peoples which [are] on [the] surface of the ground.
For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.
3 Not you will eat any disgusting thing.
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 This [is] the animal which you will eat an ox an animal of sheep and an animal of goats.
These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 A deer and a gazelle and a roe-deer and a wild goat and an ibex and an antelope and a mountain sheep.
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 animal [which] divides a hoof and [which] cleaves a cleft of two hooves [which] brings up cud among the animal[s] it you will eat.
And every beast that parts the hoof, and separates the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you shall eat.
7 Nevertheless this not you will eat any of [those which] bring up the cud and [any] of those dividing the hoof cloven the camel and the hare and the rock badger that [is] bringing up cud they and a hoof not they divide [are] unclean they to you.
Nevertheless these you 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 to you.
8 And the pig that [is] dividing a hoof it and not cud [is] unclean it to you any of meat their not you will eat and carcass their not you will touch.
And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.
9 This you will eat from all that [is] in the water all that [belongs] to it fin and scale you will eat.
These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:
10 And all that not [belongs] to it fin and scale not you will eat [is] unclean it to you.
And whatever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.
11 Every bird clean you will eat.
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
12 And this [is that] which not you will eat any of them the eagle and the bearded vulture and the osprey.
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the red kite and the hawk and the black kite to kind its.
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14 And every raven to kind its.
And every raven after his kind,
15 And [the] daughter of the ostrich and the screech owl and the gull and the falcon to kind its.
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 barn owl.
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17 And the desert owl and the Egyptian vulture and the cormorant.
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork and the heron to kind its and the hoopoe and the bat.
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every swarming thing of the insect [is] unclean it to you not they will be eaten.
And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
20 Every insect clean you will eat.
But of all clean fowls you may eat.
21 Not you will eat any carcass to the sojourner who [is] in gates your you will give it and he will eat it or you will sell it to a foreigner for [are] a people holy you to Yahweh God your not you will boil a kid in [the] milk of mother its.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are an holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
22 Fully you will tithe all [the] produce of seed your which comes out the field a year a year.
You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
23 And you will eat before - Yahweh God your in the place where he will choose to cause to dwell name his there [the] tithe of grain your new wine your and fresh oil your and [the] firstborn of herd your and flock your so that you may learn to fear Yahweh God your all the days.
And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 And if it will be [too] great for you the journey for not you will be able to carry it that it will be [too] far for you the place where he will choose Yahweh God your to put name his there for he will bless you Yahweh God your.
And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:
25 And you will exchange [it] for money and you will secure the money in hand your and you will go to the place which he will choose Yahweh God your it.
Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose:
26 And you will exchange the money for all that it will desire appetite your for cattle and for sheep and for wine and for strong drink and for all that it will ask you appetite your and you will eat there before Yahweh God your and you will rejoice you and household your.
And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,
27 And the Levite who [is] in gates your not you will neglect him for not [belongs] to him a portion and an inheritance with you.
And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28 From [the] end of - three years you will bring out all [the] tithe of produce your in the year that and you will deposit [it] in gates your.
At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
29 And he will come the Levite for not [belongs] to him a portion and an inheritance with you and the sojourner and the fatherless one and the widow who [are] in gates your and they will eat and they will be satisfied so that he may bless you Yahweh God your in all [the] work of hand your which you will do.
And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you, ) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

< Deuteronomy 14 >