Deuteronomy Chapter 14

Deuteronomy Chapter 14
1 Ye are the children of the Lord your
God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor
make you any baldness between your
eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an holy people unto the
Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen
thee to be a precious people unto
himself, above all the people that are
upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt eat no manner of
abomination.
4 These are the beasts, which ye shall
eat, the beef, the sheep, and the goat, 5
The hart, and the roebuck, and the bugle,
and the wild goat, and the unicorn, and
the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof,
and cleaveth the cleft into two claws,
and is of the beasts that cheweth the cud,
that shall ye eat. 7 But these ye shall not
eat, of them that chew the cud, and of
them that divide and cleave the hoof
only: the camel, nor the hare, nor the
coney: for they chew the cud, but divide
not the hoof: therefore they shall be
unclean unto you:
8 Also the swine, because he divideth
the hoof, and cheweth not the cud, shall
be unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of
their flesh, nor touch their dead
carcasses.
9 These ye shall eat, of all that are in the
waters: all that have fins and scales
shall ye eat.
10 And whatsoever hath no fins nor
scales, ye shall not eat: it shall be
unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat:
12 But these are they, whereof ye shall
not eat: the eagle, nor the goshawk, nor
the osprey,
13 Nor the glede nor the kite, nor the
vulture, after their kind, 14 Nor all kind
of ravens,
15 Nor the ostrich, nor the night crow,
nor the semeaw, nor the hawk after her
kind,
16 Neither the little owl, nor the great
owl, nor the redshank, 17 Nor the
pelican, nor the swan, nor the cormorant:
18 The stork also, and the heron in his
kind, nor the lapwing, nor the back. 19
And every creeping thing that flieth,
shall be unclean unto you: it shall not be
eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth
alone, but thou shalt give it unto the
stranger that is within thy gates, that he
may eat it: or thou mayest sell it unto a
stranger: for thou art an holy people unto
the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a
kid in his mother’s milk.
22 Thou shalt give the tithe of all the
increase of thy seed, that cometh forth of
the field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy
God (in the place which he shall choose
to cause his name to dwell there) the
tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the firstborn of thy kine and of
thy sheep, that thou mayest learn to fear
the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee,
so that thou art not able to carry it,
because the place is far from thee, where
the Lord thy God shall choose to set his
name, when the Lord thy God shall bless
thee,
25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and
take the money in thine hand, and go unto
the place which the Lord thy God shall
choose.
26 And thou shalt bestow the money for
whatsoever thine heart desireth: whether
it be ox, or sheep, or wine, or strong
drink, or whatsoever thine heart
desireth: and shalt eat it there before the
Lord thy God, and rejoice, both thou,
and thine household.
27 And the Levite that is within thy
gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath
neither part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt
bring forth all the tithes of thine increase
of the same year, and lay it up within thy
gates.
29 Then the Levite shall come, because
he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,
and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, which are within thy gates,
and shall eat, and be filled, that the Lord
thy God may bless thee in all the work of
thine hand which thou doest.