Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

Ye are the children of Yhwh your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

For thou art an holy people unto Yhwh thy God, And Yhwh hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

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

5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the 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 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

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 But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

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 pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

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 And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

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

10 But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

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

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

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

13 The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

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

14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

And every raven after his kind,

15 And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

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 water-hen;

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

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

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

18 The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

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

19 Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

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

20 But all clean birds you may take.

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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 Yhwh thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

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

23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

And thou shalt eat before Yhwh thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Yhwh thy God always.

24 And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

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 Yhwh thy God shall choose to set his name there, when Yhwh thy God hath blessed thee:

25 Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

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

26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before Yhwh thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

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 every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

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 has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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 Yhwh thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.