1Yahweh holds you as his people, so you will not cut yourselves or cut the hair on your forehead for the dead. 2You are a people, holy and consecrated to Yahweh, your God. Yahweh has chosen you from among all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his very own people.
Animals “clean” and “unclean”
3 ① Do not eat anything that is unclean. 4These are the animals that you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, 5deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. 6You may eat any animal that chews the cud and has a split hoof.
7But of those that chew cud or have a split hoof, you may not eat the following: camel, hare, and rock badger, because they do chew the cud but do not have a divided hoof - these are unclean for you. Neither shall you eat the meat 8of the pig because although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. Regard it as unclean: do not eat their meat or touch their carcass.
9Of all the animals that live in the water, you may eat the following: all that has fins and scales, 10but not those that do not have fins and scales. Consider them as unclean. 11You may eat all clean birds. 12But do not eat the following: eagle, vulture, osprey, 13buzzard, kite, the different kinds of falcons, 14all kinds of ravens,— 15ostrich, nighthawk, sea gull, and all the different kinds of hawk, 16eagle, owl and ibis, swan, 17pelican, purple gallinule, cormorant, 18stork, the different kinds of heron, hoopoe, and bat. 19Consider as unclean all winged insects. Do not eat them. 20But you may eat all clean birds.
21Do not eat any animal that you find dead. You may give it to the foreigner who lives in your city, or sell it to the stranger, for you are a people consecrated to Yahweh, your God.
Do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
Tithes
22 ② Every year separate the tenth part from the yield of what you have sown in your fields. 23In the presence of Yahweh, in the place he has chosen as the dwelling place for his Name, you shall eat the tithe of your wheat, your oil and your wine, and the firstlings of your herd and flock that you may learn to honor Yahweh, your God, all the days of your life.
24The journey may be too long for you to bring those tithes to the place Yahweh has chosen as a dwelling place for his Name. In that case, when Yahweh your God, blesses you, exchange them all for money. 25Take the money in your hand and go to the place chosen by Yahweh. 26There you shall buy whatever you like — oxen or sheep, or wine or strong drink — anything you like. And there you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh, and shall rejoice — you and your household. 27And do not forget the Levite who dwells in your cities, since he has nothing of his own and no inheritance as you have.
28Every three years, separate the tithes of all the year’s harvest but store them in the city. 29Then the Levite among you who has no inheritance of his own, and the foreigner, the orphan and the widow who live in your cities may come and eat, and be satisfied. So Yahweh will bless all the works of your hands, all that you undertake.
- Dt 14,3 Another list of clean and unclean animals (see Lev 11). Dt 14,22 In 14:22-29, we read about the tithes, that is the tenth part of the crops to be offered to God. Deuteronomy makes this offering the foundation of a believer's faith. Elsewhere in the Bible, the author will emphasize that the just one has compassion, he gives and lends; and in the end, he owns the land while the unjust one borrows and does not repay and in the end, he is thrown out of the land (Ps 37). The person who knows how to give does not squander: he is content with what he has and lacks nothing, while the one who refuses to give never has enough and never feels happy (Pro 11:24). See also 2 Cor 9:6. The same spirit inspires chapter 15 concerning the sabbatical year (see Lev 25:1).
- Dt 14,3 Another list of clean and unclean animals (see Lev 11). Dt 14,22 In 14:22-29, we read about the tithes, that is the tenth part of the crops to be offered to God. Deuteronomy makes this offering the foundation of a believer's faith. Elsewhere in the Bible, the author will emphasize that the just one has compassion, he gives and lends; and in the end, he owns the land while the unjust one borrows and does not repay and in the end, he is thrown out of the land (Ps 37). The person who knows how to give does not squander: he is content with what he has and lacks nothing, while the one who refuses to give never has enough and never feels happy (Pro 11:24). See also 2 Cor 9:6. The same spirit inspires chapter 15 concerning the sabbatical year (see Lev 25:1).
