14Deuteronomy 14

1Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.Select Deuteronomy 14:1

2For thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.Select Deuteronomy 14:2

3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.Select Deuteronomy 14:3

4These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,Select Deuteronomy 14:4

5The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.Select Deuteronomy 14:5

6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.Select Deuteronomy 14:6

7Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean to you.Select Deuteronomy 14:7

8And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, [is] unclean to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.Select Deuteronomy 14:8

9These ye shall eat, of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:Select Deuteronomy 14:9

10And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.Select Deuteronomy 14:10

11[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.Select Deuteronomy 14:11

12But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,Select Deuteronomy 14:12

13And the glede, and the kite, and the vultur after his kind,Select Deuteronomy 14:13

14And every raven after his kind,Select Deuteronomy 14:14

15And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,Select Deuteronomy 14:15

16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,Select Deuteronomy 14:16

17And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,Select Deuteronomy 14:17

18And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.Select Deuteronomy 14:18

19And every creeping animal that flieth [is] unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.Select Deuteronomy 14:19

20[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.Select Deuteronomy 14:20

21Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it to the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to an alien: for thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.Select Deuteronomy 14:21

22Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.Select Deuteronomy 14:22

23And 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 thy oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.Select Deuteronomy 14:23

24And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:Select Deuteronomy 14:24

25Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:Select Deuteronomy 14:25

26And thou shalt bestow that money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household.Select Deuteronomy 14:26

27And the Levite that [is] within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.Select Deuteronomy 14:27

28At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thy increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:Select Deuteronomy 14:28

29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [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 thy hand which thou doest.Select Deuteronomy 14:29