14:1 You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves nor make your forehead bald¹ for the dead. 14:2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God and he² has chosen you to be for him a select people³ above all other peoples on the earth. 14:3 You must not eat any forbidden⁴ thing. 14:4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 14:5 the ibex,⁵

the gazelle,⁶ the roebuck,⁷

the wild goat, the antelope,⁸ the wild oryx,⁹ and the chamois.¹⁰ 14:6 Every animal with divided hoof, one divided into two parts, and that chews¹¹ the cud,¹² that one you may eat. 14:7 However, you may not eat the following among those that chew¹³ the cud and that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the badger,¹⁴ which, though they chew the cud, do not have divided hooves and are therefore unclean to you. 14:8 Also the swine, though it has parted hooves,¹⁵ does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean to you. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.¹⁶ 14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures:¹⁷ anything with fin and scale you may eat, 14:10 but whatever does not have fin and scale you may not eat; it is unclean to you. 14:11 All ritually clean birds you may eat. 14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture,¹⁸ the black vulture,¹⁹ 14:13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah²⁰ by its species, 14:14 every raven after its species, 14:15 the ostrich,²¹ the owl,²² the seagull, the falcon²³ by its species, 14:16 the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,²⁴ 14:17 the jackdaw,²⁵ the carrion-vulture, the cormorant, 14:18 the stork, the heron by its species, the hoopoe, the bat, 14:19 and any winged thing on the ground are unclean to you—they may not be eaten.²⁶ 14:20 You may eat any clean bird. 14:21 You may not eat any corpse; you may give to the alien who is in your villages²⁷ and he may eat it or you may sell it to a stranger, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.²⁸

14:22 You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year. 14:23 And you must eat before the LORD your God from the tithe of your grain, your grape juice,²⁹ your oil, and the first-born of your herds and flocks in the place he will choose to locate his name so that you might learn to revere the LORD your God always. 14:24 If the³⁰ place is distant where he³¹ has decided to locate his name so that he³² might bless you, 14:25 you may convert³³ the tithe into money, secure the money,³⁴ and travel to the place which the LORD your God will choose for himself. 14:26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire.³⁵ You may eat there before the LORD your God and enjoy it,³⁶ you and your household. 14:27 As for the Levite in your villages,³⁷ you must not ignore³⁸ him, for he has no allotment or inheritance along with you. 14:28 At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up³⁹ in your villages.⁴⁰ 14:29 Then the Levite (because he has no allotment or inheritance with you), the alien, the orphan, and the widow of your villages⁴¹ may come and eat to the full⁴² so that the LORD your God might bless you in all the work you do.⁴³