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Deuteronomy 14

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1You are the children of the Lord your God. Don't mutilate yourselves or shave your forehead like pagans do when they mourn the dead,
2because you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. The Lord chose you as his special people out of all the nations on earth.
3You must not eat anything repulsive.
4These are the animals that you are allowed to eat: cattle, sheep, goats,
5deer, gazelles, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep.
6You can eat any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.
7But you are not allowed to eat those that either chew the cud or have a divided hoof. This includes: camels, rabbits, and rock hyraxes. Even though they chew the cud, they don't have a divided hoof. You must treat them as unclean.
8The same applies to the pig. Even though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. So you must treat it as unclean. You must not eat its meat or touch its dead body.
9When it comes to creatures that live in the water, you are allowed to eat anything that has fins and scales.
10But you must not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. You must treat them as unclean.
11You are allowed to eat any clean bird.
12But you must not eat the following: eagle, griffon vulture, bearded vulture,
13buzzard, kites, any kind of falcon,
14any member of the crow family,
15tawny owl, long-eared owl, gulls, any kind of hawk,
16little owl, eagle owl, barn owl,
17desert owl, Egyptian vulture, fish owl,
18storks, any kind of heron, hoopoe, or bats.

19All insects that fly are unclean to you; you must not eat them.
20But you are allowed to eat any clean animal that has wings.
21You must not eat any animal that dies. You can give it to a foreigner in your town, and they can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. You, however, are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
22Make sure you pay a tithe of every crop grown each year in your fields.
23You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose to live with you, so that you will learn to always respect the Lord your God.
24However, if it's too far to carry all the tithe that the Lord your God has blessed you with, because the place where the Lord your God will choose to live with you is too distant,
25then you can exchange it for money, take the money with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.
26Then you can spend the money on anything you like—cattle, sheep, wine, alcoholic drink, or anything else you want. Then you can have a feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and celebrate with your family.
27Don't forget to take care of the Levites in your town, because they don't have any share in the allotment of land.
28At the end of every third year, collect a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it in your town.
29This way the Levites (who don't have any share in the allotment of land), the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows in your town will be provided with what they need. The Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.