Deuteronomy 14:20-29

20 You may eat any clean bird.
21 "You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who [is] in your {towns}, and he may eat it, or you may sell [it] to a foreigner, for you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 "Certainly you must give a tithe [of] all the yield of your seed, {which comes forth from your field year after year}.
23 And you shall eat {before} Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God {always}.
24 But if {the distance is too great for you}, [so] that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is [too] far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,
25 then [in that case] {you may exchange for money}, and you shall take the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
26 You may spend the money for anything {that you desire}, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire}, and you shall eat [it] there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27 And [as to] the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance [along] with you.
28 "At the end of three years you shall bring out all [of] the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store [it] in your {towns}.
29 And [so] the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien [also may come] and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}, and {they may eat their fill}, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all [of] the work of your hand that you undertake."

Footnotes 16

  • [a]. Or "corpse"
  • [b]. Literally "gates"
  • [c]. Literally "the going forth of the field year [by] year"
  • [d]. Literally "before the faces of"
  • [e]. Literally "all of the days"
  • [f]. Literally "[it] is great from you the journey that"
  • [g]. Or "carry"
  • [h]. Literally "you may give it [in] for the money/silver"
  • [i]. Or "bind"
  • [j]. Literally "that your soul/inner self desires"
  • [k]. Literally "that your soul/inner self desires"
  • [l]. Literally "to the face of"
  • [m]. Literally "gates"
  • [n]. Literally "gates"
  • [o]. Literally "gates"
  • [p]. Literally "they may eat and they may be satisfied"
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