Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 14

Deut 14:1 “You are the children of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves
nor shave the front of your head for the dead,
Deut 14:2 for you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim, and יהוה has
chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deut 14:3 “Do not eat whatever is abominable.
Deut 14:4 “These are the living creatures which you do eat: ox, sheep, and
goat,
Deut 14:5 deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat,
and antelope, and mountain sheep.
Deut 14:6 “And every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the
cud, among the beasts, you do eat.
Deut 14:7 “But of those chewing the cud or those having a split hoof
completely divided, you do not eat, such as these: the camel, and the hare,
and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do not have a split hoof, they are
unclean for you.
Deut 14:8 “And the pig is unclean for you, because it has a split hoof, but
does not chew the cud. You do not eat their flesh or touch their dead
carcasses.
Deut 14:9 “These you do eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins
and scales you do eat.
Deut 14:10 “And whatever does not have fins and scales you do not eat, it is
unclean for you.
Deut 14:11 “Any clean bird you do eat,
Deut 14:12 but these you do not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black
vulture,
Deut 14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the buzzard after their kinds,
Deut 14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deut 14:15 and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk
after their kinds,
Deut 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,
Deut 14:17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the fisher owl,
Deut 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the
bat.
Deut 14:19 “And every creeping insect that flies is unclean for you, they are
not eaten.
Deut 14:20 “Any clean bird you do eat.
Deut 14:21 “Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is
within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart
people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deut 14:22 “You shall tithe without fail all the yield of your grain that the
field brings forth year by year.
Deut 14:23 “And you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, in the place where
He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your new
wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so that
you learn to fear יהוה your Elohim always.
Deut 14:24 “But when the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to
bring the tithe, or when the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His
Name is too far from you, when יהוה your Elohim is blessing you,
Deut 14:25 then you shall give it in silver, and shall take the silver in your
hand and go to the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses.
Deut 14:26 “And you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires:
for cattle or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for whatever your being desires.
And you shall eat there before יהוה your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you
and your household.
Deut 14:27 “And do not forsake the Lĕwite who is within your gates, for he
has no part nor inheritance with you.
Deut 14:28 “At the end of every third year you bring out all the tithe of your
increase of that year and store it up within your gates.
Deut 14:29 “And the Lĕwite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with
you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your
gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that יהוה your Elohim does bless
you in all the work of your hand which you do.