Deuteronomy 14
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. 2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. 6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you: 8and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcases ye shall not touch. 9These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat: 10and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you. 11Of all clean birds ye may eat. 12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier eagle, and the ospray; 13and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind; 14and every raven after its kind; 15and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind; 16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl; 17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant; 18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20Of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.
22Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth of the field year by year. 23And 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 firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee: 25then 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: 26and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household: 27and the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee. 28At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29and the Levite, because he hath no portion 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.
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Deuteronomy 14
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Improper Mourning Rites. 1You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.#Dt 32:5–6, 18–20; Lv 19:27–28; 21:5; Ps 103:13; Is 1:2, 4; 30:1; Jer 3:14, 19, 22; 16:6; 31:9, 20; 41:4–5; Hos 2:1; 11:1–4. 2For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.#Dt 7:6; Ex 19:5–6.
Clean and Unclean Animals. 3You shall not eat any abominable thing.#Acts 10:14. 4#Lv 11:2–23. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6Any among the animals that has divided hooves, with the foot cloven in two, and that chews the cud you may eat. 7But you shall not eat any of the following that chew the cud or have cloven hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, which indeed chew the cud, but do not have divided hooves; they are unclean for you. 8And the pig, which indeed has divided hooves, with cloven foot, but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch.
9These you may eat, of all that live in the water: whatever has both fins and scales you may eat, 10but all those that lack either fins or scales you shall not eat; they are unclean for you.
11You may eat all clean birds. 12#The identification of several of the birds in these verses is uncertain. But you shall not eat any of the following: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13the various kites and falcons, 14all kinds of crows, 15the eagle owl, the kestrel, the long-eared owl, all species of hawks, 16the little owl, the screech owl, the barn owl, 17the horned owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19#Lv 11:20–23 suggests that the unclean winged insects are those that walk on the ground; the clean winged creatures are those that leap on the ground, such as certain species of locusts. All winged insects are also unclean for you and shall not be eaten. 20Any clean winged creatures you may eat.
21You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God.#Ex 22:30; 23:19; 34:26; Lv 17:15; 22:8; Ez 44:31.
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.#Boil a young goat in its mother’s milk: the meaning of this regulation is obscure but it may have a humane concern similar to the prohibitions against slaughtering an animal and its young on the same day (Lv 22:27–28) and capturing a mother bird along with her fledgling or eggs (Dt 22:6–7). See note on Ex 23:19.
Tithes. 22Each year you shall tithe all the produce of your seed that grows in the field;#Gn 14:20; 28:22; Lv 27:30–33; Nm 18:21–32; 1 Sm 8:15, 17; 2 Chr 31:2–19; Neh 12:44; Am 4:4. 23then in the place which the Lord, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his name#Dt 12:5–7, 11–12, 17–18; 15:19–20. you shall eat in his presence the tithe of your grain, wine and oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, that you may learn always to fear the Lord, your God. 24#Mk 11:15; Jn 2:13–14. But if, when the Lord, your God, blesses you, the journey is too much for you and you are not able to bring your tithe, because the place which the Lord, your God, chooses to put his name is too far for you, 25you may exchange the tithe for money, and with the money securely in hand, go to the place which the Lord, your God, chooses. 26You may then exchange the money for whatever you desire, oxen or sheep, wine or beer, or anything else you want, and there in the presence of the Lord, your God, you shall consume it and rejoice, you and your household together.#Dt 12:7. 27But do not neglect the Levite within your gates, for he has no hereditary portion with you.#Dt 12:12, 19.
28#Dt 26:12–15. At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithes of your produce for that year and deposit them within your own communities, 29that the Levite who has no hereditary portion with you, and also the resident alien, the orphan and the widow within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied; so that the Lord, your God, may bless you in all that you undertake.
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