Deuteronomy 14

1 “Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because 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, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on 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 You shall not eat the things that are unclean.

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the animals which you ought to eat: the ox, and 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 stag and the roe deer, the gazelle, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, the giraffe.

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

6 Every beast which has a hoof divided into two parts and which also chews the cud, you shall eat.

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

7 But those which chew over again, but do not have a divided hoof, you must not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. Since these chew the cud, but do not have a divided the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

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 The pig also, since it has a divided hoof, but does not chew over again, shall be unclean. Their flesh shall not be eaten, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

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 These you shall eat out of all that dwells in the waters: whatever has fins and scales, you shall eat.

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

10 Whatever is without fins and scales, you shall not eat, for these are unclean.

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

11 All the clean birds, you shall eat.

You shall eat every clean bird.

12 You shall not eat those that are unclean: such as the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,

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

13 the crane, and the vulture, and the kite, according to their kind,

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

14 and any kind of raven,

15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk, according to their kind,

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

16 the heron, and the swan, and the ibis,

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

17 and the sea bird, the marsh hen, and the night raven,

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

18 the pelican and the plover, each in their kind, likewise the crested hoopoe and the bat.

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

19 And anything which crawls and also has little wings shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

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

20 All that is clean, you shall eat.

You shall eat every clean bird.

21 But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

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 Each year, you shall separate the tithes out of all your crops which spring forth from the earth.

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

23 And you shall eat these in the sight of the Lord your God, in the place which he will choose, so that his name may be invoked there: the tenth part of your grain and wine and oil, and the firstborn from the herds and your sheep. So may you learn to fear the Lord your God 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 But when the way and the place which the Lord your God will have chosen is further away, and he will have blessed you, so that you are not able to carry all these things to it,

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 you shall sell them all, so as to turn them into money, and you shall carry it in your hand, and you shall set out for the place which the Lord will choose.

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 you shall buy with the same money whatever pleases you, either from the herds or from the sheep, and also wine and liquor, and all that your soul desires. And you shall eat in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall feast: you and your household.

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 As for the Levite, who is within your gates, take care that you do not abandon him, for he has no other portion within your possession.

and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.

28 In the third year, you shall separate another tenth part of all the things which spring forth for you at that time, and you shall store it within your gates.

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, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall 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.