Chapter 14
1You are sons of AO your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
2for you are a people holy to AO your God. AO your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
3You must not eat any detestable thing.
4These are the animals that 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.
6You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
7But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit [or] the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
8as well as the pig, though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
9Of all [the creatures] that [live] in the water you may eat anything with fins and scales,
10but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
11You may eat any clean bird,
12but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
13the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,
14any kind of raven,
15the ostrich, 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, or the bat.
19All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
20But you may eat any clean bird.
21You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to AO your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth from your fields each year.
23And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of AO your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear AO your God always.
24But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which AO your God has blessed you, because the place where AO your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
25then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place AO your God will choose.
26Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of AO your God and rejoice with your household.
27And do not neglect the Levite Ephrathite within your gates since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
28At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay [it] up within your gates.
29Then the Levite Ephrathite (because he has no inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And AO your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.