Deuteronomy 14
14
Clean and Unclean Food
1“You are #[Isa. 1:2; Hos. 1:10; John 1:12; Rom. 9:8, 26; Gal. 3:26] the sons of the Lord your God. #See Lev. 19:28 You shall not cut yourselves or make any #[Isa. 15:2; 22:12; Ezek. 7:18; Amos 8:10]baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2For #See ch. 7:6you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Ezek. 4:14; [Acts 10:13, 14] “You shall not eat any abomination. 4#For ver. 4-20, see Lev. 11:2-23These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,#14:5 Or addax the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the #Lev. 11:5; [Ps. 104:18; Prov. 30:26]rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. 8And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and #[Lev. 11:26]their carcasses you shall not touch.
9“Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
11“You may eat all clean birds. 12But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle,#14:12 The identity of many of these birds is uncertain the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13the kite, the falcon of any kind; 14every raven of any kind; 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; 16the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl 17and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, 18the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat. 19And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 20All clean winged things you may eat.
21 # See Lev. 7:24 “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For #See ch. 7:6 you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
# See Ex. 23:19 “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithes
22 # See Num. 18:21 “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. 23And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, #ch. 12:7; 15:20 you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, #ch. 12:6 and the firstborn of your herd and flock, #ch. 4:10; 17:19that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because #ch. 12:21the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, 25then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses 26and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And #[See ver. 23 above]you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. 27And you shall not neglect #See ch. 12:19 the Levite who is within your towns, for #See Num. 18:20he has no portion or inheritance with you.
28 # ch. 26:12; [Amos 4:4] “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. 29And the Levite, because #[See ver. 27 above] he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that #ch. 15:10; 24:19; Ps. 41:1; Prov. 14:21; 19:17; 22:9; Mal. 3:10the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
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Deuteronomy 14
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1Ye are sons of Jehovah your God#GodHebrew: Elohim ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. 2For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the 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 stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep. 6And every beast that hath cloven hoofs, and the feet quite split open into double hoofs, and which cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs — they shall be unclean unto you; 8and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, yet cheweth not the cud — it shall be unclean unto you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch. 9These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat; 10but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you. 11All clean birds shall ye eat. 12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle, 13and the falcon, and the kite, and the black kite after its kind; 14and every raven after its kind; 15and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind; 16the owl, and the ibis and the swan, 17and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet, 18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten. 20All clean fowls shall ye eat. 21Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the field, year by year. 23And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim continually. 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 Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim will choose to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim blesseth thee; 25then shalt thou give it for money, and bind the money together in thy hand, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim will choose, 26and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy house. 27And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for he hath no portion 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 — for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee — and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.