1 'You are children of Yahweh your God. You must not gash yourselves or shave your foreheads for the dead.
2 For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be his own people from all the peoples on the earth.
3 'You must not eat anything disgusting.
4 These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,
5 deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx, mountain sheep.
6 You may eat any animal that has a divided and cloven hoof and that is a ruminant.
7 Of those, however, that are ruminants and of those that have a divided and cloven hoof you may not eat the following: the camel, the hare and the coney, which are ruminants but have no cloven hoof; you must class them as unclean.
8 So also the pig, which though it has a cloven hoof is not a ruminant; you must class it as unclean. You must neither eat the meat of such animals nor touch their dead bodies.
9 'Of whatever lives in water you may eat the following: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.
10 But you must not eat anything without fins and scales: you must class it as unclean.
11 'You may eat all clean birds,
12 but the following birds you must not eat: the tawny vulture, the griffon, the osprey,
13 the kite and the several kinds of buzzard,
14 all kinds of raven,
15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the seagull, the several kinds of hawk,
16 owl, barn owl, ibis,
17 pelican, white vulture, cormorant,
18 stork, the several kinds of heron, hoopoe and bat.
19 You are to class all winged insects as unclean and must not eat them.
20 You may eat any clean fowl.
21 'You must not eat any animal that has died a natural death. You may give it to a resident foreigner to eat, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God. 'You must not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 'Every year, you must take a tithe of what your fields produce from what you have sown
23 and, in the presence of Yahweh your God, in the place where he chooses to give his name a home, you must eat the tithe of your wheat, of your new wine and of your oil, and the first-born of your herd and flock; and by so doing, you will learn always to fear Yahweh your God.
24 'If the road is too long for you, if you cannot bring your tithe because the place in which Yahweh chooses to make a home for his name is too far away, when Yahweh your God has blessed you,
25 you must convert it into money and, with the money clasped in your hand, you must go to the place chosen by Yahweh your God;
26 there you may spend the money on whatever you like, oxen, sheep, wine, fermented liquor, anything you please. There you must eat in the presence of Yahweh your God and rejoice, you and your household.
27 Do not neglect the Levite living in your community, since he has no share or heritage of his own among you.
28 'At the end of every three years, you must take all the tithes of your harvests for that year and collect them in your community.
29 Then the Levite -- since he has no share or heritage of his own among you -- the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your community, will come and eat all they want. And so Yahweh your God will bless you in all the labours 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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