Deuteronomy Chapter 14 Back Next{14:1} You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any
baldness between your eyes for the dead.
{14:2} For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the
earth.
{14:3} You shall not eat any abominable thing.
{14:4} These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the
goat,
{14:5} the
hart, and the gazelle, and the
roebuck, and the
wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the
chamois.
{14:6} Every animal that parts the
hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
{14:7} Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the
camel, and the
hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
{14:8} The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their
flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
{14:9} These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
{14:10} and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
{14:11} Of all clean
birds you may eat.
{14:12} But these are they of which you shall not eat: the
eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
{14:13} and the red
kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
{14:14} and every raven after its kind,
{14:15} and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the
hawk after its kind,
{14:16} the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
{14:17} and the pelican, and the vulture, and the
cormorant,
{14:18} and the stork, and the
heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the
bat.
{14:19} All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
{14:20} Of all clean birds you may eat.
{14:21} You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the
foreigner living among you who is within your
gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a
young goat in its mother's milk.
{14:22} You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the
field year by year.
{14:23} You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your
grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the
firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
{14:24} If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall
bless you;
{14:25} then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
{14:26} and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for
cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
{14:27} The
Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
{14:28} At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
{14:29} and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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