# Deuteronomy 14

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/14

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. You are children of Yahweh your God; do not gash yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2. For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the peoples on the face of the earth.
3. Do not eat any abomination.
4. The beasts you are to eat are the ox, the sheep, the lambs, and the goats.
5. the stag, the gazelle, the fallow deer, the wild goat, the pygarg, the wild bull, and the chamois.
6. Every beast that has the hoof parted and cloven into two hooves and brings up the cud among the beasts—you shall eat.
7. You shall not eat these from among those that chew the cud or those with cloven hooves—the camel, the hare, and the coney—for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean to you.
8. The pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you; you shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their carcasses.
9. You may eat these from all that is in the waters: you may eat all that has fins and scales.
10. Whatever lacks fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
11. You may eat every clean bird.
12. These are what you shall not eat from among them: the eagle, the ossifrage, and the osprey.
13. and the kite, the vulture, and the falcon according to its kind.
14. and every raven according to its kind,
15. and the ostrich, the nighthawk, the cuckoo, and the hawk of its kind
16. the small owl, and the great owl, and the swan
17. and the cormorant, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18. and the stork, the heron after its kind, the lapwing, and the bat.
19. Every flying swarming creature is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
20. You may eat every clean bird.
21. You shall not eat any carcass; give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22. You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.
23. You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place he chooses to establish his name there, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, so that you learn to fear Yahweh your God all the days.
24. And if the distance is too great for you, so that you cannot carry it because the place is too far from you—the place Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there—when Yahweh your God blesses you,
25. You shall give it for money, bind the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
26. You shall spend the silver on whatever your appetite craves—oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything else your appetite desires—and eat there before Yahweh your God, and rejoice, you and your household.
27. Do not abandon the Levite living in your towns, for he has no share or inheritance with you.
28. At the end of three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year and store it up within your gates.
29. The Levite shall come, for he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow who are in your gates shall eat and be satisfied, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

## Nearby chapters

[Deuteronomy 13](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/13.md)
[Deuteronomy 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/15.md)

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