Thematic Bible
Deuteronomy 14:1 (show verse)
You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:2 (show verse)
You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Out of all the people on the face of the earth Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His own possession.
Deuteronomy 14:3 (show verse)
Do not eat any detestable thing.
Deuteronomy 14:4 (show verse)
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Deuteronomy 14:5 (show verse)
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope (chamois) and the mountain sheep.
Deuteronomy 14:6 (show verse)
You may eat any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud.
Deuteronomy 14:7 (show verse)
Do not eat of these that chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan. Even though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof. They are unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:8 (show verse)
The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. Do not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.
Deuteronomy 14:9 (show verse)
These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:10 (show verse)
Do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:11 (show verse)
You may eat any clean bird.
Deuteronomy 14:12 (show verse)
These are the ones you should not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
Deuteronomy 14:13 (show verse)
and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,
Deuteronomy 14:14 (show verse)
and every raven in its kind,
Deuteronomy 14:15 (show verse)
and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,
Deuteronomy 14:16 (show verse)
the swan, the great owl, the white owl,
Deuteronomy 14:17 (show verse)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14:18 (show verse)
the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 (show verse)
And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them.
Deuteronomy 14:20 (show verse)
You may eat any clean bird.
Deuteronomy 14:21 (show verse)
Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 14:22 (show verse)
You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.
Deuteronomy 14:23 (show verse)
You shall eat in the presence of Jehovah your God, at the place where He chooses to establish his name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to respect Jehovah your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:24 (show verse)
The place Jehovah your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you cannot carry the tithe of your income that far.
Deuteronomy 14:25 (show verse)
If so, exchange the tenth part of your income for silver. Take the silver with you, and go to the place Jehovah your God will choose.
Deuteronomy 14:26 (show verse)
Use the silver to buy whatever you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, liquor-whatever you choose. Then you and your family will eat and enjoy yourselves there in the presence of Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 14:27 (show verse)
Do not neglect the Levites who live in your towns. They have no property of their own.
Deuteronomy 14:28 (show verse)
At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns.
Deuteronomy 14:29 (show verse)
This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do.