Deuteronomy 14:1 - Prayer Tents

14"You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.H1121H3068H430H1413H7760H7144H5869H4191 2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.H6918H5971H3068H430H3068H977H5459H5971H5971H6440H127 3"You shall not eat any abomination.H398H8441 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,H929H398H7794H7716H3775H5795 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.H354H6643H3180H689H1788H8377H2169 6Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.H929H6536H6541H8157H8156H8147H6541H5927H1625H929H398 7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.H398H5927H1625H6536H8156H6541H1581H768H8227H5927H1625H6536H6541H2931 8And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.H2386H6536H6541H1625H2931H398H1320H5060H5038 9"Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.H398H4325H5579H7193H398 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.H5579H7193H398H2931 11"You may eat all clean birds.H2889H6833H398 12But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,H398H5404H6538H5822 13the kite, the falcon of any kind;H7201H344H1772H4327 14every raven of any kind;H6158H4327 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;H1323H3284H8464H7828H5322H4327 16the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owlH3563H3244H8580 17and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,H6893H7360H7994 18the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.H2624H601H4327H1744H5847 19And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.H8318H5775H2931H398 20All clean winged things you may eat.H2889H5775H398 21"You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.H398H5038H5414H1616H8179H398H4376H5237H6918H5971H3068H430H1310H1423H517H2461 22"You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.H6237H6237H8393H2233H7704H3318H8141H8141 23And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H977H7931H8034H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H3925H3372H3068H430H3117 24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,H1870H7235H3588H3201H5375H4725H7368H3068H430H977H7760H8034H3068H430H1288 25then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God choosesH5414H3701H6696H3701H3027H1980H4725H3068H430H977 26and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.H5414H3701H5315H183H1241H6629H3196H7941H5315H7592H398H6440H3068H430H8055H1004 27And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.H3881H8179H5800H2506H5159 28"At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.H7097H7969H8141H3318H4643H8393H8141H3240H8179 29And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.H3881H2506H5159H1616H3490H490H8179H935H398H7646H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H6213