[[Deuteronomy 13|<< Deuteronomy 13]] | [[Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] | [[Deuteronomy 15|Deuteronomy 15 >>]] ### Deuteronomy 14 1 YE _are_ the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ^1 2 For thou _art_ an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that _are_ upon the earth. ^2 3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. ^3 4 These _are_ the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, ^4 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. ^5 6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, _and_ chews the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. ^6 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; _as_ the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; _therefore_ they _are_ unclean unto you. ^7 8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it _is_ unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. ^8 9 ¶ These ye shall eat of all that _are_ in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: ^9 10 And whatsoever has not fins and scales ye may not eat; it _is_ unclean unto you. ^10 11 ¶ _Of_ all clean birds ye shall eat. ^11 12 But these _are_ _they_ of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ^12 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, ^13 14 And every raven after his kind, ^14 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, ^15 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, ^16 17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, ^17 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. ^18 19 And every creeping thing that flies _is_ unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. ^19 20 _But_ _of_ all clean fowls ye may eat. ^20 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat _of_ any thing that dies of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that _is_ in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou _art_ an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. ^21 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field brings forth year by year. ^22 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. ^23 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; _or_ if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God has blessed thee: ^24 25 Then shalt thou turn _it_ into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: ^25 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desires: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, ^26 27 And the Levite that _is_ within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with thee. ^27 28 ¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay _it_ up within thy gates: ^28 29 And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which _are_ within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. ^29