Chapter 14
1 You are the children of the LORD your God . You shall not cut yourselves , nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead .
2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God , and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession , above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3 You shall not eat any abominable thing .
4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox , the sheep , the goat ,
5 the deer , the gazelle , the roebuck , the wild goat, the ibex , the antelope , and the chamois .
6 Every animal that parts the hoof , and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud , amongst the animals, you may eat.
7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud , or of those who have the hoof split : the camel , the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof , they are unclean to you .
8 The pig , because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud , is unclean to you . You shall not eat their meat . You shall not touch their carcasses .
9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters : you may eat whatever has fins and scales .
10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales . It is unclean to you .
11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle , the vulture , the osprey,
13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind ,
14 every raven of any kind ,
15 the ostrich , the owl , the seagull, the hawk of any kind ,
16 the little owl , the great owl , the horned owl ,
17 the pelican , the vulture , the cormorant ,
18 the stork , the heron after its kind , the hoopoe , and the bat .
19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you . They shall not be eaten.
20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself . You may give it to the foreigner living amongst you 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 the LORD your God . You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk .
22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed , that which comes out of the field year by year .
23 You shall eat before the LORD your God , in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell , 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 the LORD your God always .
24 If the way is too long for you , so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you , when the LORD your God blesses you ,
25 then you shall turn it into money , bind up the money in your hand , and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.
26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires : for cattle , or for sheep , or for wine , or for strong drink , or for whatever your soul asks of you . You shall eat there before the LORD your God , and you shall rejoice , you and your household .
27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates , for he has no portion nor inheritance with you .
28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year , and shall store it within your gates .
29 The Levite , because he has no portion nor inheritance with you , as well as the foreigner living amongst you , the fatherless , and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied ; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do .