Deuteronomy 14

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

Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;

2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Eat not the things that are unclean.

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

These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois.

The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you:

But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

8 and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcases ye shall not touch.

The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat:

These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

11 Of all clean birds ye may eat.

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

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

The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind;

The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

14 and every raven after its kind;

And all of the raven’s kind:

15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind;

And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;

And the cormorant, the porphyrion, and the night crow,

18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

19 And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20 Of all clean fowls ye may eat.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.

But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth of the field year by year.

Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee:

But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

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

Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household:

And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

27 and the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion 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 the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.