Deuteronomy 14

About Deuteronomy Deuteronomy records Moses' last speeches, retelling the law and urging Israel to love and obey God in the new land.

Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:1Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:2Ask

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:3Ask

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:4Ask

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:5Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:6Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:7Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:8Ask

These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:SelectedDeuteronomy 14:9Ask

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:10Ask

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:11Ask

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:12Ask

And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:13Ask

And every raven after his kind,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:14Ask

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:15Ask

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:16Ask

And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:17Ask

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:18Ask

And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:19Ask

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:20Ask

Ye shall not eat of anything 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:21Ask

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:22Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:23Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 14:24Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 14:25Ask

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,SelectedDeuteronomy 14:26Ask

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:27Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 14:28Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 14:29Ask

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