New King James Version

Deuteronomy 14:16-24 New King James Version (NKJV)

16. the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

17. the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

18. the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19. “Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

20. “You may eat all clean birds.

21. “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22. “You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.

23. And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

24. But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you,