Deuteronomy 14

Pagan Practices Forbidden

1 # Lev 21.5; Rom 8.16 “You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead. 2#Deut 7.6For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Clean and Unclean Foods

3“You shall not eat any abhorrent thing. 4#Lev 11.2–45; Acts 10.14These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof cleft in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. 8#Lev 11.26, 27And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

9 # Lev 11.9 “Of all that live in water you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11“You may eat any clean birds. 12#Lev 11.13But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, 13the buzzard, the kite of any kind; 14every raven of any kind; 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; 16the little owl and the great owl, the water hen 17and the desert owl,#14.17 Or pelican the carrion vulture and the cormorant, 18the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.#14.18 Identification of several of the birds in 14.12–18 is uncertain 19#Lev 11.20And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 20You may eat any clean winged creature.

21 # v 2 ; Ex 23.19; 34.26; Lev 17.15“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Regulations concerning Tithes

22 # Lev 27.30 “Set apart a tithe of all the yield of your seed that is brought in yearly from the field. 23#Deut 4.10; 12.5–7In the presence of the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose as a dwelling for his name, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. 24#Deut 12.5, 21But if, when the Lord your God has blessed you, the distance is so great that you are unable to transport it, because the place where the Lord your God will choose to set his name is too far away from you, 25then you may turn it into money. With the money secure in hand, go to the place that the Lord your God will choose; 26#Deut 12.7, 18spend the money for whatever you wish: oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household rejoicing together. 27#Num 18.20; Deut 12.12As for the Levites resident in your towns, do not neglect them, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you.

28 # Deut 26.12 “Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of your produce for that year and store it within your towns; 29#v 27; Deut 15.10; 26.12the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.

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