Deuteronomy
Chapter 14
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1You are sons of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall not cut yourselves, and you shall not make a bald patch between your eyes for the dead.
2For you are a people set apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has chosen you to be a people of his own treasure out of all the peoples on the face of the soil.
3You shall not eat any Something God hates and will not accept..
4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep of the flock, and the goat of the flock,
5the deer, the gazelle, the yachmur, the aqqo, the dishon, the te’o, and the zamer.
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Ayyal is the deer. Tsevi is the gazelle. Yachmur, aqqo, dishon, te’o, and zamer are the other names. A modern species is not added for them.
6Every animal that has a hoof split in two, a cleft of two hooves, and that brings up the cud, among the animals, that one you may eat.
7But this you shall not eat, of those that bring up the cud and of those that have a split hoof: the camel, the hare, and the rock-badger, because they bring up the cud and the hoof they do not split. They are unclean for you.
8And the pig, because it splits the hoof and does not bring up the cud. It is unclean for you. From their meat you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch.
9This you may eat from everything that is in the water: everything that has fin and scale you may eat.
10Everything that does not have fin and scale you shall not eat. It is unclean for you.
11Every clean bird you may eat.
12This is what you shall not eat of them: the eagle, the bone-breaker, and the black-vulture,
13the kite, the falcon, and the dayyah after its kind,
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The bird names follow the working names in Leviticus 11 where the Hebrew word is the same. Dayyah is a third name in this verse, and it is not folded into the other two.
14and every raven after its kind,
15the ostrich, the tachmas, the shachaf, and the hawk after its kind,
16the kos, the yanshuf, and the tinshemet,
17the qa’at, the rachamah, and the shalakh,
18the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19Every swarmer of flying things is unclean for you. They shall not be eaten.
20Every clean bird you may eat.
21You shall not eat any carcass. You may give it to the A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in your gates, and he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people set apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
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Nevelah is a carcass, an animal that died on its own. The kid and the mother’s milk are printed as written.
22You shall tenth, tenth, all the yield of your seed that the field brings out, year by year.
23You shall eat before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, in the place he chooses to make his name dwell, the tenth of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you learn to fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God all the days.
24If the way is too much for you, because you cannot carry it, because the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, when God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God blesses you,
25you shall turn it into silver, bind the silver in your hand, and go to the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses.
26You shall give the silver for whatever your life craves, for herd or flock, for wine or intoxicating drink, or for whatever your life asks of you, and you shall eat there before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
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Shekhar is intoxicating drink, as in Numbers 28. It is not named as wine. Wine is the other word in the line.
27The Levite who is in your gates you shall not forsake, for he has no share or inheritance with you.
28At the end of three years you shall bring out the whole tenth of your yield in that year and leave it in your gates.
29The Levite, because he has no share or inheritance with you, and the A person living in a land that is not their own., the fatherless, and the widow who are in your gates, shall come and eat and be full, so that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God blesses you in all the work of your hand that you do.