Deuteronomy 14
1YOU are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations on the face of the earth,
3you shall not eat any abomination.
4These are the beasts which you shall eat: young bulls, and sheep, and goats,
5deer and roebucks, and the pygarg, and oryx, and camelopardal—
6every beast which parteth the hoof, dividing it into two distinct hoofs, and which cheweth the cud; these among the cattle you may eat.
7But of those which chew the cud, and of those which part not the hoof, dividing it into two distinct hoofs, these you shall not eat—the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit. Because though they chew the cud they do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you—
8the swine also, because, though it parteth the hoof and divideth it into distinct hoofs, yet it doth not chew the cud, it is unclean to you. You shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their dead carcasses.
9And of all that are in the water, these you may eat.
10You may eat all that have fins and scales. But all that have not fins and scales, you shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
11Every clean fowl yon may eat;
12now these are they which you shall not eat—
13the eagle and the osprey, and the sea-eagle,
14and the vulture, and the kite, and all of its kind;
15the ostrich,
16and the owl, and the gull, and the heron, and the swan, and the ibis, and cormorant, and the hawk, and all of its kind; and the hoopoe, and the night raven,
17and the pelican, and the plover, and all of its species;
18and the flamingo, and the bat,
19All the creeping things which fly are unclean to you. You shall not eat any of them.
20Every flying thing, which is clean, you may eat.
21Everything which dieth of itself you shall not eat. It may be given to the stranger, who is in thy cities, and he may eat it, or thou mayst sell it to the stranger.
Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its ewe.
22Thou shalt set apart the tenth of all the increase of thy seed, the product of thy field year after year;
23and this thou shalt eat in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, for His name to be there invoked. Thither you shall bring the tenths of thy corn, and of thy wine, and thine oil and the firstlings of thy kine, and of thy flocks, that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24But if the way be too long for thee, and thou canst not carry them up, because the place is far distant from thee, which the Lord thy God hath chosen for His name to be there invoked; seeing the Lord thy God hath blessed thee,
25therefore thou shalt sell them for money; and thou shalt take the money in thy hand, and go to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen;
26and thou shalt give this money for whatever thy soul may desire—for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or strong drink, or for anything which thy soul may desire; and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and rejoice with thy household,
27and the Levite who is in thy cities, because he hath no portion nor lot with you.
28And, at the end of three years, thou shalt carry out all the tenth of thy products in that year, and lay it up in thy cities,
29and the Levite shall come, because he hath no portion nor lot with thee, and the proselyte, and the orphan, and the widow, who is in thy cities, and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou dost.