King James VersionDeuteronomy14

Deuteronomy

1 Ye are the chil­dren of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut your­selves, nor make any bald­ness be­tween your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy peo­ple unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath cho­sen thee to be a pe­cu­liar peo­ple unto him­self, above all the na­tions that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abom­inable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roe­buck, and the fal­low deer, and the wild goat, and the py­garg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And ev­ery beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nev­er­the­less these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that di­vide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but di­vide not the hoof; therefore they are un­clean unto you. 8 And the swine, be­cause it di­videth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is un­clean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead car­case. 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the wa­ters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And what­so­ev­er hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is un­clean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the ea­gle, and the os­sifrage, and the os­pray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vul­ture af­ter his kind, 14 And ev­ery raven af­ter his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuck­ow, and the hawk af­ter his kind, 16 The lit­tle owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pel­i­can, and the gier ea­gle, and the cor­morant, 18 And the stork, and the heron af­ter her kind, and the lap­wing, and the bat. 19 And ev­ery creep­ing thing that fli­eth is un­clean unto you: they shall not be eat­en. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that di­eth of it­self: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy peo­ple unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt tru­ly tithe all the in­crease of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat be­fore the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God al­ways. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to car­ry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into mon­ey, and bind up the mon­ey in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt be­stow that mon­ey for what­so­ev­er thy soul lus­teth af­ter, for ox­en, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for what­so­ev­er thy soul de­sireth: and thou shalt eat there be­fore the LORD thy God, and thou shalt re­joice, thou, and thine house­hold, 27 And the Levite that is with­in thy gates; thou shalt not for­sake him; for he hath no part nor in­her­i­tance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine in­crease the same year, and shalt lay it up with­in thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (be­cause he hath no part nor in­her­i­tance with thee, ) and the stranger, and the fa­ther­less, and the wid­ow, which are with­in thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be sat­is­fied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.