Deuteronomy 14
1 “You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead.
2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you from among all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his treasured possession.
3 Do not eat anything detestable.
4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat.
5 The deer, the gazelle, the fallow deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.
6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof, divided in two, and chews the cud.
7 But among those that chew the cud or have split hooves, you must not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the hyrax. They chew the cud but do not have split hooves; they are unclean for you.
8 And the pig, because it has a split hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9 Of all the things that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
10 But anything without fins and scales you must not eat; it is unclean for you.
11 You may eat any clean bird.
12 These are the ones you must not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, and the black vulture.
13 The kite, the falcon, and the buzzard, each according to its kind.
14 Every kind of raven.
15 The ostrich, the owl, the gull, and the hawk, each according to its kind.”
16 “The little owl, the great owl, and the white owl.
17 The pelican, the Egyptian vulture, and the cormorant.
18 The stork, the heron of every kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 Every winged swarming creature is unclean for you; it must not be eaten.
20 You may eat any clean bird.
21 Do not eat any animal that has died on its own. You may give it to the resident foreigner in your towns, and he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
22 Set aside a full tenth of all the produce from your seed, what the field yields each year.
23 Eat it before the LORD your God in the place he chooses to establish his name: the tenth of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and flock. In this way you will learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 If the journey is too long for you, so that you cannot carry the tenth, because the place the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far away, when the LORD your God blesses you,
25 exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.
26 Spend the money on whatever you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, fermented drink, or anything else you wish. Eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
27 Do not neglect the Levite who is in your towns, for he has no share or inheritance with you.
28 At the end of every three years, set aside the entire tenth of that year's produce and store it in your towns.
29 Then the Levite, who has no share or inheritance with you, and the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow in your towns will come and eat their fill, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything your hands do.”
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