Deuteronomy 14:1-29 NIV
Clean and Unclean Food
1You are the children of The Lord your GOD.
Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2for you are a people holy to The Lord your GOD. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, The Lord Has Chosen you to be His Treasured Possession.
Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2for you are a people holy to The Lord your GOD. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, The Lord Has Chosen you to be His Treasured Possession.
3Do not
eat any detestable thing. 4These
are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the
deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the
mountain sheep.a
6You may
eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
7However,
of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the
camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a
divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8The pig
is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You
are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9Of all
the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10But
anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is
unclean.
11You may
eat any clean bird.
12But
these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13the red
kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14any
kind of raven, 15the
horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16the
little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17the
desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the
stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19All
flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.
20But any
winged creature that is clean you may eat.
21Do not
eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing
in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other
foreigner. But you are a people holy to The Lord your GOD.
Do not cook a young goat in its
mother’s milk.
Tithes
22 Be sure
to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23Eat the
tithe of your grain,
new wine
and olive oil,
and the firstborn of your herds
and flocks
in the Presence of The Lord your GOD at the place HE WILL Choose
as a Dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to revere The Lord your GOD always. 24But if
that place is too distant and you have been blessed by The Lord your GOD and cannot carry your tithe
(because the place where The Lord WILL Choose to Put His Name is so far
away), 25then
exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the
place The Lord your GOD WILL Choose. 26Use the
silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink,
or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the Presence
of The Lord your GOD and rejoice.
27And do
not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or
inheritance of their own.
28At the
end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store
it in your towns, 29so that
the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own)
and the
foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and
eat and be satisfied, and so that The Lord your GOD May Bless you in all the work
of your hands.
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