Deuteronomy 14
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 14
1 You are the children of the Lord, your God. Do not slash yourselves nor shave the front of your heads on account of the dead.[a] 2 You are a people who are holy to the Lord, your God, and the Lord has picked you out from among all the peoples on the earth to be a chosen people.
Clean and Unclean Food.[b] 3 You are not to eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the animals that you can eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the gazelle, the roebuck, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild ox, and the mountain sheep. 6 Every animal that has a cleft hoof, its hoof is divided in two parts, and that chews its cud is an animal that you can eat. 7 However, there are animals that chew their cud, or that have a cleft hoof that you cannot eat: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew their cud but do not have a cleft hoof, so they are unclean for you. 8 Likewise, pigs have a cleft hoof, but they do not chew their cud, so they are unclean for you. You are not to eat their meat, nor even touch their dead carcasses.
9 You can eat any water creature that has fins and scales; those you can eat. 10 Whatever does not have fins or scales, you are not to eat. It is unclean for you.
11 You can eat any clean bird. 12 These are the birds you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the osprey, 13 the hawk, the kite, any type of vulture, 14 any kind of raven, 15 the owl, the night hawk, the gull, any type of falcon, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl, 17 the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, any type of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 Every type of flying insect is unclean for you. You shall not eat it, 20 but you can eat any type of clean bird.
21 Do not eat anything that died on its own. You can give it to a foreigner who is living in your town, and he can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people who are holy to the Lord, your God. You shall not eat a kid goat boiled in its mother’s milk.[c]
22 Tithes.[d]Each year you are to tithe the yield of your seed that has grown in the field. 23 This is what you shall eat in the presence of the Lord, your God, in the place that he has established that his name be placed: the tithe of your grain, wine, and oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock. This will be a lesson to fear the Lord, your God, always. 24 If the distance is so great that you cannot carry it to the place that the Lord, your God, has chosen to set his name, and the Lord, your God, has blessed you, 25 then you shall exchange it for money, and carry the money to the place that the Lord, your God, has chosen. 26 You can use that money to buy whatever you wish, oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, whatever you wish. You and your family will consume it in the presence of the Lord, your God, and you will rejoice.
27 You are not to neglect the Levite who lives in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you. 28 [e]Every third year you are to bring all of your tithes from your produce for that year and you will deposit them in your town. 29 The Levite, who has no portion nor inheritance among you, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who live in your town will consume it until they are full. Thus, the Lord, your God, will bless you in every endeavor you pursue.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 14:1 A prohibition of some traditional pagan practices.
- Deuteronomy 14:3 One would “be a slave” of alien gods if one were to eat animals consecrated to them. The law prohibits this (Ex 34:15). The list includes some other animals that are excluded either by custom or for reasons of hygiene.
- Deuteronomy 14:21 Cooking a kid in its mother’s milk was a pagan Canaanite practice.
- Deuteronomy 14:22 This description of a tithe is different from that given in Num 18:21-24 and probably replaced the earlier law.
- Deuteronomy 14:28 Never forgotten by the Lord, the orphan, foreigner, and widow were remembered in a special way by the Israelites every three years by a tithe on all the year’s produce.
申命记 14
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
禁为死者划身剃额
14 “你们是耶和华你们神的儿女。不可为死人用刀划身，也不可将额上剃光。 2 因为你归耶和华你神为圣洁的民，耶和华从地上的万民中拣选你特做自己的子民。
示以洁与不洁之物
3 “凡可憎的物都不可吃。 4 可吃的牲畜就是：牛、绵羊、山羊、 5 鹿、羚羊、狍子、野山羊、麋鹿、黄羊、青羊。 6 凡分蹄成为两瓣又倒嚼的走兽，你们都可以吃。 7 但那些倒嚼或是分蹄之中不可吃的乃是：骆驼，兔子，沙番，因为是倒嚼不分蹄，就于你们不洁净； 8 猪，因为是分蹄却不倒嚼，就于你们不洁净。这些兽的肉，你们不可吃，死的也不可摸。
9 “水中可吃的乃是这些：凡有翅有鳞的，都可以吃。 10 凡无翅无鳞的都不可吃，是于你们不洁净。
11 “凡洁净的鸟，你们都可以吃。 12 不可吃的乃是：雕，狗头雕，红头雕， 13 鹯，小鹰，鹞鹰与其类， 14 乌鸦与其类， 15 鸵鸟，夜鹰，鱼鹰，鹰与其类， 16 鸮鸟，猫头鹰，角鸱， 17 鹈鹕，秃雕，鸬鹚， 18 鹳，鹭鸶与其类，戴鵀与蝙蝠。 19 凡有翅膀爬行的物是于你们不洁净，都不可吃。 20 凡洁净的鸟，你们都可以吃。
21 “凡自死的，你们都不可吃，可以给你城里寄居的吃，或卖于外人吃，因为你是归耶和华你神为圣洁的民。不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。
22 “你要把你撒种所产的，就是你田地每年所出的，十分取一分； 23 又要把你的五谷、新酒和油的十分之一，并牛群、羊群中头生的，吃在耶和华你神面前，就是他所选择要立为他名的居所。这样，你可以学习时常敬畏耶和华你的神。 24 当耶和华你神赐福于你的时候，耶和华你神所选择要立为他名的地方若离你太远，那路也太长，使你不能把这物带到那里去， 25 你就可以换成银子，将银子包起来，拿在手中，往耶和华你神所要选择的地方去。 26 你用这银子，随心所欲，或买牛羊，或买清酒浓酒，凡你心所想的都可以买。你和你的家属在耶和华你神的面前吃喝快乐。 27 住在你城里的利未人，你不可丢弃他，因为他在你们中间无份无业。
28 “每逢三年的末一年，你要将本年的土产十分之一都取出来，积存在你的城中。 29 在你城里无份无业的利未人，和你城里寄居的，并孤儿寡妇，都可以来，吃得饱足。这样，耶和华你的神必在你手里所办的一切事上赐福于你。
Deuteronomy 14
King James Version
14 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14 And every raven after his kind,
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:
26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
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