Deuteronomy 14-16 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Deuteronomy 14

 ¹Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;

    ²Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

    ³Eat not the things that are unclean.

    ⁴These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

    ⁵The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

    ⁶Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

    ⁷But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

    ⁸The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

    ⁹These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

    ¹⁰Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

    ¹¹All birds that are clean you shall eat.

    ¹²The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

    ¹³The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

    ¹⁴And all of the raven's kind:

    ¹⁵And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

    ¹⁶The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

    ¹⁷And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

    ¹⁸The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

    ¹⁹Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

    ²⁰All that is clean, you shall eat.

    ²¹But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

    ²²Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

    ²³And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

    ²⁴But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

    ²⁵Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose :

    ²⁶And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

    ²⁷And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

    ²⁸The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

    ²⁹And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

   

Deuteronomy 15

 ¹In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,

    ²Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord,

    ³Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

    ⁴And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.

    ⁵Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.

    ⁶Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have dominion over thee.

    ⁷If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within the gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,

    ⁸But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.

    ⁹Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

    ¹⁰But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.

    ¹¹There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

    ¹²When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:

    ¹³And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

    ¹⁴But shalt give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless thee.

    ¹⁵Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.

    ¹⁶But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:

    ¹⁷Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.

    ¹⁸Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them tree: because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou dost.

    ¹⁹Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy sheep.

    ²⁰In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

    ²¹But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

    ²²But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.

    ²³Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

   

Deuteronomy 16

 ¹Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

    ²And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

    ³Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.

    ⁴No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.

    ⁵Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:

    ⁶But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.

    ⁷And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy dwellings.

    ⁸Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.

    ⁹Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.

    ¹⁰And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.

    ¹¹And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

    ¹²And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.

    ¹³Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.

    ¹⁴And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates.

    ¹⁵Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy.

    ¹⁶Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

    ¹⁷But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.

    ¹⁸Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,

    ¹⁹And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

    ²⁰Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

    ²¹Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

    ²²Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.