Deuteronomy 14
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1You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead; 2For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, sheep, the goat, 5The hart (deer), the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild ox, the chamois. 6And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you shall eat. 7Nevertheless these you shall not eat that chew the cud, or that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger; for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore, they are unclean to you. 8And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

9These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales: 10But whatever has no fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.

11Of all clean birds you shall eat. 12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the ossifrage, the osprey, 13The buzzard, the falcon, the kite after its kind, 14Every raven after its kind, 15The ostrich, the night hawk, the sea gull, the hawk after its kind, 16The little screech owl, the great owl, the swan, 17The pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18The stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. 20But of all clean fowls you may eat.

21You shall not eat anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the sojourner who is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people unto the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

22You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year. 23And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you: 25Then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go unto the place where the LORD your God shall choose: 26And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul desires; for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household, 27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you. 28At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: 29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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