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Deuteronomy 14:10-24 English Standard Version (ESV)

10. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11. “You may eat all clean birds.

12. But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

13. the kite, the falcon of any kind;

14. every raven of any kind;

15. the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

16. the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl

17. and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

18. the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.

19. And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

20. All clean winged things you may eat.

21. “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22. “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.

23. And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

24. And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there,