Deuteronomy 14
14
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Lev 19.28; 21.5. Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2#Exod 19.5,6; Deut 4.20; 7.6; 26.18; Titus 2.14; 1 Pet 2.9. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,#14.2 a peculiar people unto himself or a people for his own possession. above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Clean and Unclean Food
(Leviticus 11.1-47)
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 roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 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. 7Nevertheless 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. 8And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.
9These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14and every raven after his kind, 15and the owl, and the nighthawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind, 16the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
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Exod 23.19; 34.26. Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth 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 a holy people unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
The Law of the Tithe
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Lev 27.30-33; Num 18.21. Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 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 thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; 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; 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 hath blessed 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 that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: 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 part nor inheritance with thee.
28At 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: 29and the Levite, (because he hath 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.
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King James Version 1611, spelling, punctuation and text formatting modernized by ABS in 1962; typesetting © 2010 American Bible Society.
Deuteronomy 14
14
Complete devotion to the LORD
1You are the LORD’s children. Don’t cut yourselves and don’t shave your foreheads for the dead, 2because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You are the ones whom the LORD selected to be his own, to be a treasured people out of all other people on earth.
Dietary laws
3Don’t eat any detestable thing. 4Here’s a list of animals you are allowed to eat: ox, sheep, goat, 5deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. 6You are also allowed to eat any animal with a divided hoof—the hoof being divided into two parts—and that rechews food among the various kinds of animals. 7However, here’s a list of animals that either rechew food or have hooves divided in two parts that you are not allowed to eat:
the camel, the hare, and the rock badger—because these rechew food but don’t have divided hoofs, they are off-limits for you;
8and the pig—because it has a divided hoof but doesn’t rechew food, it’s off-limits for you.
You may not eat these animals’ meat, and you must not touch their carcasses.
9Here’s a list of the water animals you are allowed to eat: you can eat anything that has fins and scales. 10But you aren’t allowed to eat anything that lacks scales or fins. These are off-limits for you.
11You are allowed to eat any clean bird. 12Here’s a list of those you are not allowed to eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, 13the red kite, the black kite, and any kind of bird of prey, 14any kind of raven, 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the seagull, any kind of hawk, 16the small owl and the large owl, the water hen, 17the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.#14.18 The species of many of the birds in 14:12-18 is uncertain.
19Also, all winged insects are off-limits for you. They are not to be eaten. 20Any clean winged creature can be eaten, however.
21You must not eat any decayed animal flesh because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You can give decayed animal flesh to the immigrants who live in your cities, and they can eat it; or you can sell it to foreigners.
Don’t cook a lamb in its own mother’s milk.
Tenth part
22You must reserve a tenth part of whatever your fields produce each year. 23Eat the tenth part of your grain, wine, oil, oldest offspring of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God in the location he selects for his name to reside so that you learn to fear the LORD your God at all times. 24But if the trip is too long, because the location the LORD your God has selected to put his name is far away from where you live so that you can’t transport the tenth part—because the LORD your God will certainly bless you— 25then you can convert it to money. Take the money with you and go to the location the LORD your God selects. 26Then you can use the money for anything you want: cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever else you might like. Then you should feast there and celebrate in the presence of the LORD your God, along with your entire household. 27Only make sure not to neglect the Levites who are living in your cities because they don’t have a designated inheritance like you do.
28Every third year you must bring the tenth part of your produce from that year and leave it at your city gates. 29Then the Levites, who have no designated inheritance like you do, along with the immigrants, orphans, and widows who live in your cities, will come and feast until they are full. Do this so that the LORD your God might bless you in everything you do.
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