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;

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you 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 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.

3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

You shall 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 you shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;

5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

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.

Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these you 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

And these you shall eat of all that are in the water, you shall eat all that have fins and scales.

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

And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

11 All clean birds may be used for food.

You shall eat every clean bird.

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

And these of them you shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

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

and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,

14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

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

and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,

16 The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,

17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

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

and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.

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

All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you shall not eat of them.

20 But all clean birds you may take.

You shall eat every clean bird.

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.

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.

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

You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field 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 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.

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 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;

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 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.

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 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,

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 in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.

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:

After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.

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 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.