Deuteronomy 14

Revised Geneva Translation

14 “You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make yourself bald between your eyes for the dead.

² “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. And the LORD has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all the people who are upon the Earth.

³ “You shall eat no type of abomination.

⁴ “These are the beasts which you shall eat: beef, sheep, lamb, young goat, female goat,

⁵ “deer, gazelle, red deer, clean mountain goat, antelope, clean mountain sheep.

⁶ “And every beast that parts the hoof and divides the cleft into two claws and is of the beasts that chew the cud, that shall you eat.

⁷ “But these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that divide and split the hoof — the camel, the hare, the rock badger (for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof) — they shall be unclean to you.

⁸ “Also, the swine, because he does not divide the hoof and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

⁹ “These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat.

¹⁰ “And whatever has no fins or scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

¹¹ “Of all clean birds you shall eat.

¹² “But these are those of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

¹³ “the hawk, the falcon, the kite (after their kind),

¹⁴ “any kind of raven,

¹⁵ “the ostrich, the night crow, the seagull, the hawk (after her kind),

¹⁶ “the little owl, the great owl, the chameleon,

¹⁷ “the pelican, the carrion vulture, nor the cormorant:

¹⁸ “the stork, the heron (in his kind), the hoopoe, and the bat.

¹⁹ “And every creeping thing that flies shall be unclean to you. It shall not be eaten.

²⁰ “You may eat of all clean birds.

²¹ “You shall eat of nothing that dies alone. But you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

²² “You shall give the tithe of all the increase of your seed that comes forth from the field, year by year.

²³ “And you shall eat before the LORD your God (in the place which He shall choose to cause His Name to dwell) the tithe of your corn and of your wine and of your oil and of the firstborn of your cattle and of your sheep, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

²⁴ “And if the way is too long for you (so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is far from you where the LORD your God shall choose to set His Name, when the LORD your God shall bless you)

²⁵ “then you shall make it in money and take the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.

²⁶ “And you shall bestow the money for whatever your heart desires — whether it be ox or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever your heart desires — and shall eat it there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

²⁷ “And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates. For he has neither part nor inheritance with you.

²⁸ “At the end of three years, you shall bring forth all the tithes of your increase of the same year and lay it up within your gates.

²⁹ “Then, the Levite shall come, because he has no part or inheritance with you or the stranger or the fatherless or the widow who are within your gates. And he shall eat, and be filled, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”