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Deuteronomy 14
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1You⌃ are the children of the Lord your God: you⌃ shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3You⌃ shall not eat any abominable thing.
3You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4These [are] the beasts which you⌃ shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
6Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cudamong beasts, these you⌃ shall eat.
6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
7And these you⌃ shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
8And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; you⌃ shall not eat of their flesh, you⌃ shall not touch their dead bodies.
8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
9And these you⌃ shall eat of all that are in the water, you⌃ shall eat all that have fins and scales.
9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
10And all that have not fins and scales you⌃ shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
10You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
11You⌃ shall eat every clean bird.
11Of all clean birds you may eat.
12And these of them you⌃ shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
13the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,
15and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,
16and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
17and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
17the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
18and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
18the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; you⌃ shall not eat of them.
19All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
20You⌃ shall eat every clean bird.
20Of all clean birds you may eat.
21You⌃ shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22You shall tithe a tenth of all the produce of your seed, the fruit of your field year by year.
22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
23And you shall eat it in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there; you⌃ shall bring the tithe of your corn and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
23You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
24And if the journey be too far for you, and you are not able to bring them, because the place [is] far from you which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called there , because the Lord your God will bless you;
24If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
25then you shall sell them for money, and you shall take the money in your hands, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose.
25then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
26And you shall give the money for whatever your soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or [you shall lay it out] on strong drink, or on whatever your soul may desire, and youshall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoiceand your house,
26You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28After three years you shall bring out all the tithes of your fruits, in that year you shall lay it up in your cities.
28At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
29And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.
29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.