New Century Version

Deuteronomy 14:8-23 New Century Version (NCV)

8. Pigs are also unclean for you; they have split hoofs, but they do not chew the cud. Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.

9. There are many things that live in the water. You may eat anything that has fins and scales,

10. but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.

11. You may eat any clean bird.

12. But do not eat these birds: eagles, vultures, black vultures,

13. red kites, falcons, any kind of kite,

14. any kind of raven,

15. horned owls, screech owls, sea gulls, any kind of hawk,

16. little owls, great owls, white owls,

17. desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

18. storks, any kind of heron, the hoopoes, or bats.

19. All insects with wings are unclean for you; do not eat them.

20. Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.

21. Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God.Do not cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.

22. Be sure to save one-tenth of all your crops each year.

23. Take it to the place the Lord your God will choose where he is to be worshiped. There, where you will be together with the Lord, eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and eat the animals born first to your herds and flocks. Do this so that you will learn to respect the Lord your God always.