Deuteronomy 14
14
Improper Mourning
1“You are #(Rom. 8:16; Gal. 3:26)the children of the Lord your God; #Lev. 19:28; 21:1–5you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead. 2#Lev. 20:26; Deut. 7:6; (Rom. 12:1)For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Clean and Unclean Meat
3#Ezek. 4:14“You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4#Lev. 11:2–45These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals. 7Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you. 8Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh #Lev. 11:26, 27or touch their dead carcasses.
9#Lev. 11:9“These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales. 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
11“All clean birds you may eat. 12#Lev. 11:13But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 13the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; 14every raven after its kind; 15the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds; 16the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, 17the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl, 18the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
19“Also #Lev. 11:20every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; #Lev. 11:23they shall not be eaten.
20“You may eat all clean birds.
21#Lev. 17:15; 22:8; Ezek. 4:14; 44:31“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; #Deut. 14:2for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.
“#Ex. 23:19; 34:26You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithing Principles
22#Lev. 27:30; Deut. 12:6, 17; Neh. 10:37“You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year. 23#Deut. 12:5–7And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of #Deut. 15:19, 20the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. 24But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or #Deut. 12:5, 21if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you, 25then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. 26And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall #Deut. 12:7rejoice, you and your household. 27You shall not forsake the #Deut. 12:12Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
28#Deut. 26:12; Amos 4:4“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the #Num. 18:21–24tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. 29And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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Deuteronomy 14
14
Israel, God’s Special People
1“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads#14:1 shave your heads Literally, “shave between your eyes.” to show your sadness. 2This is because you are different from other people. You belong to the Lord your God. From all the people in the world, the Lord chose you to be his own special people.
Food the Israelites Are Allowed to Eat
3“Don’t eat anything that the Lord hates. 4You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, 5deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild sheep, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep. 6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud. 7But don’t eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. So these animals are not a clean food for you. 8And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don’t chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don’t eat any meat from pigs. Don’t even touch a pig’s dead body.
9“You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales. 10But don’t eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.
11“You may eat any clean bird. 12But don’t eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards, 13red kites, falcons, any kind of kite, 14any kind of raven, 15horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk, 16little owls, great owls, white owls, 17desert owls, ospreys, cormorants, 18storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.
19“All insects with wings are unclean, so don’t eat them. 20But you may eat any clean bird.
21“Don’t eat any animal that has died by itself. You may give the dead animal to the foreigner in your town, and he can eat it. Or you may sell the dead animal to a foreigner. But you yourselves must not eat the dead animal, because you belong to the Lord your God. You are his special people.
“Don’t cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.
Giving One-Tenth
22“Every year you must be sure to save one-tenth of all the crops that grow in your fields. 23Then you must go to the place the Lord chooses to be the home for his name. You will go there to be with the Lord your God. At that place you will eat the tenth of your crops—one-tenth of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. In this way you will always remember to respect the Lord your God. 24But that place might be too far for you to travel to. Maybe you will not be able to carry one-tenth of all the crops that the Lord has blessed you with. If that happens, 25sell that part of your crops and take the money with you to the special place the Lord has chosen. 26Use the money to buy anything you want—cattle, sheep, wine or beer or any other food. Then you and your family should eat and enjoy yourselves there in that place with the Lord your God. 27But don’t forget the Levites living in your town. Share your food with them because they don’t have a share of the land like you have.
28“At the end of every three years, you must gather one-tenth of your harvest for that year. Store this food in your towns. 29Keep this food for the Levites, because they don’t have any land of their own. Also keep this food for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. This will provide enough for them to come and eat all they want. If you do this, the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
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