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Deuteronomy 14

New Century Version NCV

1 You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

2 You are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

3 Do not eat anything the Lord hates.

4 These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,

5 deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goats, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.

6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof and chews the cud,

7 but you may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they do not have split hoofs, so they are unclean for you.

8 Pigs are also unclean for you; they have split hoofs, but they do not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.

9 There are many things that live in the water. You may eat anything that has fins and scales,

10 but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.

11 You may eat any clean bird.

12 But do not eat these birds: eagles, vultures, black vultures,

13 red kites, falcons, any kind of kite,

14 any kind of raven,

15 horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk,

16 little owls, great owls, white owls,

17 desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

18 storks, any kind of heron, the hoopoes, or bats.

19 All insects with wings are unclean for you; do not eat them.

20 Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.

21 Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Do not cook a baby goat in its mother's milk.

22 Be sure to save one-tenth of all your crops each year.

23 Take it to the place the Lord your God will choose where he is to be worshiped. There, where you will be together with the Lord, eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and eat the animals born first to your herds and flocks. Do this so that you will learn to respect the Lord your God always.

24 But if the place the Lord will choose to be worshiped is too far away and he has blessed you so much you cannot carry a tenth,

25 exchange your one-tenth for silver. Then take the silver with you to the place the Lord your God shall choose.

26 Use the silver to buy anything you wish -- cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or anything you wish. Then you and your family will eat and celebrate there before the Lord your God.

27 Do not forget the Levites in your town, because they have no land of their own among you.

28 At the end of every third year, everyone should bring one-tenth of that year's crop and store it in your towns.

29 This is for the Levites so they may eat and be full. (They have no land of their own among you.) It is also for strangers, orphans, and widows who live in your towns so that all of them may eat and be full. Then the Lord your God will bless you and all the work you do.

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 "You are the people of ADONAI your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead,

2 because you are a people set apart as holy for ADONAI your God. ADONAI your God has chosen you to be his own unique treasure out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

3 "You are not to eat anything disgusting.

4 The animals which you may eat are: ox, sheep, goat,

5 deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx and mountain sheep.

6 Any animal that has a separate hoof that is completely divided and also chews the cud, these animals you may eat.

7 But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof. For example, the camel, the hare and the coney are unclean for you because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof;

8 while the pig is unclean for you because, although it has a separate hoof, it doesn't chew the cud. You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses.

9 "Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat.

10 But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.

11 "You may eat any clean bird;

12 but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,

13 kites, any kind of buzzard,

14 any kind of raven,

15 ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

16 little owls, great owls, horned owls,

17 pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

18 storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.

19 "All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;

20 but all clean flying creatures you may eat.

21 "You are not to eat any animal that dies naturally; although you may let a stranger staying with you eat it, or sell it to a foreigner; because you are a holy people for ADONAI your God. "You are not to boil a young animal in its mother's milk.

22 "Every year you must take one tenth of everything your seed produces in the field,

23 and eat it in the presence of ADONAI your God. In the place where he chooses to have his name live you will eat the tenth of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, so that you will learn to fear ADONAI your God always.

24 But if the distance is too great for you, so that you are unable to transport it, because the place where ADONAI chooses to put his name is too far away from you; then, when ADONAI your God prospers you,

25 you are to convert it into money, take the money with you, go to the place which ADONAI your God will choose,

26 and exchange the money for anything you want - cattle, sheep, wine, other intoxicating liquor, or anything you please - and you are to eat there in the presence of ADONAI your God, and enjoy yourselves, you and your household.

27 "But don't neglect the Levi staying with you, because he has no share or inheritance like yours.

28 At the end of every three years you are to take all the tenths of your produce from that year and store it in your towns.

29 Then the Levi, because he has no share or inheritance like yours, along with the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your towns, will come, eat and be satisfied - so that ADONAI your God will bless you in everything your hands produce.