Deuteronomy 14 (NET)

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Deuteronomy 14:1¹You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 3:26 Lev 21:5 Rom 9:8 Rom 9:26 Heb 2:10 Hos 1:10 Jer 16:6 Jer 41:5 John 1:12 Rom 8:16

Deuteronomy 14:2²For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:6 Lev 20:26 Exod 19:5-6 1 Pet 2:9 Deut 26:18-19 Lev 19:2 Titus 2:14 Deut 28:9 Lev 11:45 Isa 62:12

Deuteronomy 14:3³You must not eat any forbidden thing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:14 Lev 11:43 Lev 20:25 Rom 14:14 1 Cor 10:28 Acts 10:12-14 Isa 65:4 Titus 1:15

Deuteronomy 14:4⁴These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:23 Acts 10:14 Lev 11:2-45

Deuteronomy 14:5⁵the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:6⁶You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:17 Prov 18:1 Ps 1:1-2

Deuteronomy 14:7⁷However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:18-22 2 Tim 3:5 Lev 11:5 Matt 7:22-23 Matt 7:26 Titus 1:16

Deuteronomy 14:8⁸Also, the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 11:26-27 2 Pet 2:22 Isa 65:4 Isa 66:17 Isa 66:3 Luke 15:15-16

Deuteronomy 14:9⁹These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 11:9-12

Deuteronomy 14:10¹⁰but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:11¹¹All ritually clean birds you may eat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:12¹²These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 11:13-19

Deuteronomy 14:13¹³the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:14¹⁴every raven after its species,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:15¹⁵the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 30:29

Deuteronomy 14:16¹⁶the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:17¹⁷the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:18¹⁸the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, and the bat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:19¹⁹And any swarming winged thing is impure to you—they may not be eaten.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 11:20-23 Phil 3:19

Deuteronomy 14:20²⁰You may eat any winged creature that is clean.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:21²¹You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 23:19 Exod 34:26 Lev 22:8 Deut 14:2 Rom 12:2 Acts 15:20 Dan 12:7 Lev 17:15 Lev 19:33-34 Ezek 4:14

Deuteronomy 14:22²²You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:17 Deut 12:6 Deut 26:12-15 Neh 10:37 Num 18:21 Lev 27:30-33

Deuteronomy 14:23²³In the presence of the Lord your God, in the place he chooses to locate his name, you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:5-7 Deut 12:17-18 Deut 15:19-20 Deut 4:10

Deuteronomy 14:24²⁴When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:21 Deut 12:5 Deut 11:24 Exod 23:31

Deuteronomy 14:25²⁵you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 14:26²⁶Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 9:7 1 Cor 6:12-13 Deut 12:20-21 Deut 12:7 Deut 26:11 Matt 21:12 Ps 106:14 1 Cor 10:6 Deut 12:12 Deut 12:15

Deuteronomy 14:27²⁷As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 14:29 Num 18:20 Deut 12:12 1 Tim 5:17 Deut 12:18-19 Deut 18:1-2 Gal 6:6

Deuteronomy 14:28²⁸At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 14:22 Amos 4:4 Deut 26:12-15

Deuteronomy 14:29²⁹Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 15:10 Deut 14:27 Prov 19:17 Deut 16:11 Deut 24:19-21 Mal 3:10-11 2 Cor 9:6-11 Deut 12:12 Deut 16:14 Deut 26:12-13

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