The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 14
1 You are the children of Yahweh 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 Yahweh
your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to
be a people for his own possession, above
all peoples who are onthe face ofthe 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 thehoof splitintwo and chews the cud,
among 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 among 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
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your
God always.
24 If the way is too long for you, so that
you are not able to carry it because the place whichYahwehyour God shall choose
to set his name there is too far from you,
when Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 among you, 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.