Deuteronomy 14:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

Deuteronomy 14:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.

Deuteronomy 14:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Deuteronomy 14:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

Deuteronomy 14:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

You may eat any clean bird.

Deuteronomy 14:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Deuteronomy 14:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.

Deuteronomy 14:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

Deuteronomy 14:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 14:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.

Deuteronomy 14:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Eat the tithe 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 as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 14:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away),

Deuteronomy 14:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 14:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice.

Deuteronomy 14:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

Deuteronomy 14:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns,

Deuteronomy 14:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 15:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 15)

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 15:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 15)

You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

Deuteronomy 15:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 15)

However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,

Deuteronomy 15:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 15)

if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.

Deuteronomy 15:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 15)

For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.