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So when someone dies, don't [mourn] by cutting yourselves or shaving bald spots on your head. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You are people who are holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the people who live on earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his own special possession.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Never eat anything that is disgusting to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Here are the [kinds of] animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>deer, gazelles, fallow deer, wild goats, mountain goats, antelope, and mountain sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But some animals chew their cud, while others have completely divided hoofs. You may not eat these [kinds of] animals. They include camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. (Although they chew their cud, they don't have divided hoofs. They are unclean for you.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Also, you may not eat pigs. (Although their hoofs are divided, they don't chew their cud.) Never eat their meat or touch their dead bodies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Here's what you may eat of every creature that lives in the water: You may eat any creature that has fins and scales. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But never eat anything that doesn't have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You may eat any clean bird. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>buzzards, all types of kites, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>all types of crows, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>little owls, great owls, barn owls, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>pelicans, ospreys, cormorants, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>However, you may eat any [other kind of] flying creature that is clean.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Never eat any creature that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigners who live in your cities, and they may eat it. You may also sell it to foreigners who are visiting. But you are people who are holy to the LORD your God. Never cook a young goat in its mother's milk.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Every year be sure to save a tenth of the crops harvested from whatever you plant in your fields. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and eat the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats in the presence of the LORD your God in the place he will choose to put his name. Then you will learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But the place the LORD your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you can't carry a tenth of your income that far. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If so, exchange the tenth part of your income for silver. Take the silver with you, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Use the silver to buy whatever you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, liquor-whatever you choose. Then you and your family will eat and enjoy yourselves there in the presence of the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Never forget to take care of the Levites who live in your cities. They have no land of their own as you have.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>At the end of every third year bring a tenth of that year's crop, and store it in your cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come to eat all they want. The Levites may also come because they have no land of their own as you have. 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