Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.

Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, —ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

For, a holy people, thou art unto Yahweh thy God, —and, of thee, did Yahweh make choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

3 You must not eat any abominable thing.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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

These, are the beasts which ye may eat, —the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats;

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

the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, —and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.

6 You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.

And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall ye eat.

7 Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Nevertheless these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, —the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are unto you.

8 The pig is unclean to you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.

And, the swine, because though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, —of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, shall ye not touch.

9 Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;

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

10 but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.

and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, —unclean, it is unto you.

11 All clean birds you may eat.

Of every clean bird, ye may eat;

12 But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

saving these, of which ye may not eat, —the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;

13 the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.

and the vulture and the kite, and the falcon after its kind;

14 You must not eat any kind of raven,

and every raven after its kind;

15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,

and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich and the sea-gull, —and the hawk, after its kind;

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

and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;

17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.

and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;

18 You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, —and the mountain-cock, and the bat.

19 All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.

And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, —they, shall not be eaten.

20 You may eat all clean flying things.

All clean fowls, ye may eat.

21 You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself: to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for a holy people, art thou unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

22 You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.

Thou shalt surely tithe, all the increase of thy seed, —which the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.

And thou shalt eat before Yahweh thy God—in the place which he shall choose to make a habitation for his name there, —the tithe of thy corn thy new wine and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, —that thou mayest learn to revere Yahweh thy God all the days.

24 If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,

But, when the way becometh too long for thee because thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far for thee which Yahweh thy God shall choose to put his name there, —because Yahweh thy God blesseth thee,

25 you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.

then shalt thou turn it into silver, —and shalt bind up the silver in thy hand, and shalt journey unto the place, which Yahweh thy God shall choose;

26 There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.

and shalt turn the silver into whatsoever thy soul desireth—of the herd or of the flock, or of wine or of strong drink, or of whatsoever thy soul shall ask thee for, —and shalt eat it there, before Yahweh thy God, and shalt rejoice, thou and thy household,

27 The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

and, the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him, —for he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years you will present all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and you will store it up within your gates;

At the end of three years, shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in that year, —and shalt lay it up within thy gates;

29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

and the Levite shall come in—because he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee—and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, —that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.