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Deuteronomy 14:5-24 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.

6. And any animal having a split hoof and so a dividing of the hoof into two parts and that chews the cud among the animals—that animal you may eat.

7. Only these you may not eat from those chewing the cud and from those having a division of the hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud, but they do not divide the hoof; they are therefore unclean for you.

8. And also the pig because it has a division of the hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

9. “This is what you shall eat from all that is in the water: everything that has fins and scales you may eat.

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.

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,