Deuteronomy 14

1You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 6:4 · Ex 4:22 · Lev 19:27 · Lev 21:5 · Ps 82:6 · +17 more

2For 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 on the face of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Lev 11:45 · Lev 19:2 · Lev 20:26 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 14:21 · +9 more

3You shall not eat any abominable thing.Cross-references: Lev 11:43 · Lev 20:25 · Isa 65:4 · Ezek 4:14 · Acts 10:12 · Rom 14:14 · +2 more

4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,Cross-references: Lev 11:2 · 1Ki 4:23 · Acts 10:14

5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.Cross-references: Ps 1:1 · Prov 18:1 · 2Cor 6:17

7Nevertheless 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.Cross-references: Lev 11:5 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 7:26 · 2Tim 3:5 · Titus 1:16 · 2Pet 2:18

8The 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.Cross-references: Lev 11:26 · Isa 65:4 · Isa 66:3 · Isa 66:17 · Luke 15:15 · 2Pet 2:22

9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.Cross-references: Lev 11:9

10You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

11Of all clean birds you may eat.

12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,Cross-references: Lev 11:13

13the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,

14every raven of any kind,

15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,Cross-references: Job 30:29

16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

17the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

18the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

19All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.Cross-references: Lev 11:20 · Phil 3:19

20Of all clean birds you may eat.

21You 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.Cross-references: Ex 12:43 · Ex 23:19 · Ex 34:26 · Lev 17:15 · Lev 19:33 · Lev 22:8 · +7 more

22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.Cross-references: Lev 27:30 · Num 18:21 · Deut 12:6 · Deut 12:17 · Deut 26:12 · Neh 10:37

23You 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:10 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:17 · Deut 15:19

24If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,Cross-references: Ex 23:31 · Deut 11:24 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:21

25then 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.

26You 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.Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:15 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 12:20 · Deut 26:11 · +9 more

27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.Cross-references: Num 18:20 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:18 · Deut 14:29 · Deut 18:1 · Gal 6:6 · +1 more

28At 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.Cross-references: Deut 14:22 · Deut 26:12 · Amos 4:4

29The 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.Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Lev 19:34 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 14:27 · Deut 15:10 · Deut 16:11 · +16 more