Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 14:10-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

10. But anything that does not have fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you.

11. “All of the birds that are clean you may eat.

12. Now these are the ones you shall not eat any of them: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,

13. and the red kite and the black kite or any kind of falcon,

14. and any kind of crow according to its kind,

15. and the ostrich and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

16. the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl,

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

18. and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.

19. And also all of the winged insects; they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them.

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.