1 Yahweh holds you as his sons, so you will not cut yourselves or cut the hair on your forehead for the dead.
2 You are a people, holy and consecrated to Yahweh, your God. Yahweh has chosen you from among all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his very own people.
3 Do not eat anything that is unclean.
4 These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,
5 deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
6 You may eat any animal that chews the cud and has a split hoof.
7 But of those that chew cud or have a split hoof, you may not eat the following: camel, hare, and rock badger, because they do chew the cud but do not have a divided hoof - these are unclean for you. Neither shall you eat the meat
8 of the pig because although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. Regard it as unclean: do not eat their meat or touch their carcass.
9 Of all the animals that live in the water, you may eat the following: all that has fins and scales,
10 but not those that do not have fins and scales. Consider them as unclean.
11 You may eat all clean birds.
12 But do not eat the following: eagle, vulture, osprey,
13 buzzard, kite, the different kinds of falcons,
14 all kinds of ravens, -
15 ostrich, nighthawk, sea gull, and all the different kinds of hawk,
16 eagle, owl and ibis, swan,
17 pelican, purple gallinule, cormorant,
18 stork, the different kinds of heron, hoopoe, and bat.
19 Consider as unclean all winged insects. Do not eat them.
20 But you may eat all clean birds.
21 Do not eat any animal that you find dead. You may give it to the foreigner who lives in your city, or sell it to the stranger, for you are a people consecrated to Yahweh, your God. Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 Every year separate the tenth part from the yield of what you have sown in your fields.
23 In the presence of Yahweh, in the place he has chosen as the dwelling place for his Name, you shall eat the tithe of your wheat, your oil and your wine, and the firstlings of your herd and flock that you may learn to honor Yahweh, your God, all the days of your life.
24 The journey may be too long for you to bring those tithes to the place Yahweh has chosen as a dwelling place for his Name. In that case, when Yahweh your God, blesses you, exchange them all for money.
25 Take the money in your hand and go to the place chosen by Yahweh.
26 There you shall buy whatever you like - oxen or sheep, or wine or strong drink - anything you like. And there you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh, and shall rejoice - you and your household.
27 And do not forget the Levite who dwells in your cities, since he has nothing of his own and no inheritance as you have.
28 Every three years, separate the tithes of all the year's harvest but store them in the city.
29 Then the Levite among you who has no inheritance of his own, and the foreigner, the orphan and the widow who live in your cities may come and eat, and be satisfied. So Yahweh will bless all the works of your hands, all that you undertake.
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Deuteronomy 14 deals mainly on God's dietary laws to the people of Israel, including which animals are considered pure and impure for consumption. Moreover, the chapter also addresses the importance of separating tithing and presenting it before the Lord.
Leviticus 11:47 - "To differentiate between the unclean and the pure, and between animals that can be eaten and the animals that cannot be eaten." This verse shows that the food laws were given by God to differentiate between pure and impure.
Acts 10:14 - "But Peter answered," Sir, because I have never eaten anything common and filthy. " Peter, a Jew, initially reluctant to eat with the Gentiles, but God instructs him not to call unclean what He has purified.
1 Timothy 4:4-5 - "For every creature of God is good, and there is nothing to reject, being received with thanksgiving. For by the Word of God and prayer is sanctified." This verse shows that all foods are pure, provided they are received with thanksgiving and sanctified by the Word of God.
Malachi 3:10 - "bring all tithes to the treasure house, that there may be maintenance in my house, and then prove me, says the Lord of hosts, if I do not open the windows of heaven, and do not pour out For such a blessing, that he warns you the greatest wealth. " This verse highlights the importance of bringing tithing to the house of the Lord and the promise of abundant blessings in response.
Luke 21:1-4 - "And, looking at him, he saw the rich launch his offers into the treasure ark; and he saw a poor widow also throw two small coins there; and said, Terde, I say unto you that he threw more than all This poor widow; for all those gave what he left; but this, of their poverty, gave all he had for his livelihood. " This verse highlights the importance of sacrifice in our offerings and tithes, regardless of the monetary value, and that God values the sincerity of the heart.
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