Deuteronomy 14
14
Religious Practices
(Leviticus 11:1–23)
1You are the children of the Lord your God. So when someone dies, don’t ⌞mourn⌟ by cutting yourselves or shaving bald spots on your head. 2You are people who are holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the people who live on earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his own special possession.
3Never eat anything that is disgusting to the Lord. 4Here are the ⌞kinds of⌟ animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats, 5deer, gazelles, fallow deer,#14:5 A specific species of deer. wild goats, mountain goats, antelope, and mountain sheep. 6You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud. 7But some animals chew their cud, while others have completely divided hoofs. You may not eat these ⌞kinds of⌟ animals. They include camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. (Although they chew their cud, they don’t have divided hoofs. They are unclean #14:7 “Unclean” refers to anything that is not presentable to God. for you.) 8Also, you may not eat pigs. (Although their hoofs are divided, they don’t chew their cud.) Never eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.
9Here’s what you may eat of every creature that lives in the water: You may eat any creature that has fins and scales. 10But never eat anything that doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
11You may eat any clean bird. 12But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, 13buzzards, all types of kites, 14all types of crows, 15ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, 16little owls, great owls, barn owls, 17pelicans, ospreys, cormorants, 18storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.
19Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten. 20However, you may eat any ⌞other kind of⌟ flying creature that is clean.
21Never eat any creature that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigners who live in your cities, and they may eat it. You may also sell it to foreigners who are visiting. But you are people who are holy to the Lord your God.
Never cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Giving God One-Tenth of Everything
22Every year be sure to save a tenth of the crops harvested from whatever you plant in your fields. 23Eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and eat the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats in the presence of the Lord your God in the place he will choose to put his name. Then you will learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live.
24But the place the Lord your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you can’t carry a tenth of your income that far. 25If so, exchange the tenth part of your income for silver. Take the silver with you, and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. 26Use the silver to buy whatever you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, liquor—whatever you choose. Then you and your family will eat and enjoy yourselves there in the presence of the Lord your God. 27Never forget to take care of the Levites who live in your cities. They have no land of their own as you have.
28At the end of every third year bring a tenth of that year’s crop, and store it in your cities. 29Foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come to eat all they want. The Levites may also come because they have no land of their own as you have. Then the Lord your God will bless you in whatever work you do.
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Deuteronomy 14
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Deuteronomy 14
1¶ Ye are the sons of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness over your eyes for the dead.
2For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4These are the animals which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5the hart and the roebuck and the buffalo and the wild goat and the unicorn (rhinoceros) and the wild ox and the mountain goat,
6and every animal that parts the hoof and cleaves the cleft into two claws and chews the cud among the beasts that ye shall eat.
7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you;
8and the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead carcase.
9These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat,
10but whatever does not have 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 night hawk and the cuckow 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 serpent that flies shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21Ye shall not eat of any thing that died of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it, or thou may sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother’s milk.
22¶ Thou shalt without fail tithe all the increase of thy seed that thy field brings forth each year.
23And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose for his name to dwell, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy cows and of thy sheep, that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, or if the place is too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God has blessed thee,
25then shalt thou sell it for money and bind up the money in thy hand and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;
26and thou shalt give that money for whatever thy soul desires, for cows or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatever thy soul desires; and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.
27And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that dwells within thy gates, for he has 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, who has no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who 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 thy hands which thou doest.
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