Deuteronomy, 14

1. 'You are children of Yahweh your God. You must not gash yourselves or shave your foreheads for the dead.

1. "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on 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.

2. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

3. 'You must not eat anything disgusting.

3. "You shall not eat any abominable thing.

4. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat,

4. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5. deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx, mountain sheep.

5. the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.

6. You may eat any animal that has a divided and cloven hoof and that is a ruminant.

6. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

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.

7. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.

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.

8. And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

9. 'Of whatever lives in water you may eat the following: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.

9. "Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.

10. But you must not eat anything without fins and scales: you must class it as unclean.

10. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11. 'You may eat all clean birds,

11. "You may eat all clean birds.

12. but the following birds you must not eat: the tawny vulture, the griffon, the osprey,

12. But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

13. the kite and the several kinds of buzzard,

13. the buzzard, the kite, after their kinds;

14. all kinds of raven,

14. every raven after its kind;

15. the ostrich, the screech owl, the seagull, the several kinds of hawk,

15. the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk, after their kinds;

16. owl, barn owl, ibis,

16. the little owl and the great owl, the water hen

17. pelican, white vulture, cormorant,

17. and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

18. stork, the several kinds of heron, hoopoe and bat.

18. the stork, the heron, after their kinds; the hoopoe and the bat.

19. You are to class all winged insects as unclean and must not eat them.

19. And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

20. You may eat any clean fowl.

20. All clean winged things you may eat.

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.

21. "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall 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

22. "You shall tithe all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from the field year by year.

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.

23. And before the LORD your God, in the place which he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

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,

24. And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,

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;

25. then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses,

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.

26. and spend the money for whatever you desire, oxen, or sheep, or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves; and you shall eat there before the LORD 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.

27. And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with 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.

28. "At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and lay it up within your towns;

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.'

29. and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.