The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Deuteronomy (WEB)
14: 1You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any
baldness between your eyes for the dead. 14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and
Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the
face of the earth. 14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing. 14:4These are the animals which you
may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild
goat, and the gazelle, and the antelope, and the chamois. 14:6Every animal that parts the hoof, and
has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
14:7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof
cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof,
they are unclean to you. 14:8The pig, because he doesn't part the hoof but doesn't chew the cud, he is
unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. 14:9These
you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; 14:10and
whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. 14:11Of all clean birds
you may eat. 14:12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the
ospray, 14:13and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14:14and every raven after its
kind, 14:15and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16the
little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 14:17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the
cormorant, 14:18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 14:19All
winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds you may
eat. 14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner who is
within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to
Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 14:22You shall surely tithe all the
increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year. 14:23You shall eat before
Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe
of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;
that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. 14:24If the way be too long for you, so that you
are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall
choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you; 14:25then shall you turn it
into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose: 14:26and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or
for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat
there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 14:27The Levite who
is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same
year, and shall lay it up within your gates: 14:29and the Levite, 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 shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the
work of your hand which you do.
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