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Deuteronomy 14

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBYou are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
    KJVYe are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  2. 2
    WEBFor you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
    KJVFor 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. 3
    WEBYou shall not eat any abominable thing.
    KJVThou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
  4. 4
    WEBThese are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
    KJVThese are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
  5. 5
    WEBthe deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
    KJVThe hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
  6. 6
    WEBEvery animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
    KJVAnd 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. 7
    WEBNevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
    KJVNevertheless 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. 8
    WEBThe pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
    KJVAnd 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. 9
    WEBThese you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
    KJVThese ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
  10. 10
    WEBYou shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
    KJVAnd whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
  11. 11
    WEBOf all clean birds you may eat.
    KJVOf all clean birds ye shall eat.
  12. 12
    WEBBut these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
    KJVBut these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
  13. 13
    WEBthe red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,
    KJVAnd the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
  14. 14
    WEBevery raven of any kind,
    KJVAnd every raven after his kind,
  15. 15
    WEBthe ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,
    KJVAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
  16. 16
    WEBthe little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
    KJVThe little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
  17. 17
    WEBthe pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
    KJVAnd the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
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    WEBthe stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
    KJVAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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    WEBAll winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
    KJVAnd every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
  20. 20
    WEBOf all clean birds you may eat.
    KJVBut of all clean fowls ye may eat.
  21. 21
    WEBYou shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
    KJVYe shall not eat of any thing 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. 22
    WEBYou shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
    KJVThou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
  23. 23
    WEBYou shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
    KJVAnd 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. 24
    WEBIf the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
    KJVAnd 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. 25
    WEBthen you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
    KJVThen 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. 26
    WEBYou shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
    KJVAnd 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. 27
    WEBYou shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
    KJVAnd the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
  28. 28
    WEBAt the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
    KJVAt 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. 29
    WEBThe Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
    KJVAnd 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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  • King James Version (1769 text), public domain outside the United Kingdom, where Crown letters patent apply.