Clean and Unclean Food
1You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
3Do not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.14:5 The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain. 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. 7However, 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. 8The 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.
9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
11You may eat any clean bird. 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14any kind of raven, 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.
21Do 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.
Tithes
22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23Eat 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. 24But 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), 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. 26Use 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. 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29so 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.
做圣洁的子民
1“你们是你们上帝耶和华的儿女，不可为死人割伤自己或剃光前额。 2因为你们是属于你们的上帝耶和华的圣洁子民，祂从天下万族中拣选你们作祂宝贵的产业。
3“你们不可吃任何可憎之物。 4但你们可以吃牛、绵羊、山羊、 5鹿、瞪羚、野山羊、野绵羊和羚羊。 6凡蹄子分瓣且反刍的动物，你们都可以吃。 7在那些只是反刍或只是蹄子分瓣的动物中，你们不可吃骆驼、野兔和獾，因为它们反刍但蹄子不分瓣，是不洁净的。 8你们也不可吃猪，因为猪虽蹄子分瓣但不反刍，是不洁净的。你们不可吃这些动物的肉，也不可摸它们的尸体。
9“水族中，凡有鳞和鳍的，你们都可以吃。 10凡无鳞和鳍的都不洁净，你们不可吃。
11“你们可以吃洁净的鸟类。 12不可吃的鸟类有雕、胡兀鹫、黑秃鹫、 13鸢、隼类、 14乌鸦类、 15驼鸟、夜鹰、海鸥、鹰类、 16小鸮、大鸮、仓鸮、 17鹈鹕、鱼鹰、鸬鹚、 18鹳、鹭鸟类、戴胜和蝙蝠。
19“凡有翅膀、会爬的昆虫都不洁净，你们不可吃。 20凡有翅膀的洁净之物，你们都可以吃。
21“你们不可吃死掉的动物，但可以送给或卖给住在你们城里的外族人吃。因为你们属于你们的上帝耶和华，是圣洁的民族。你们不可用母山羊的奶煮它的羊羔。
十一奉献
22“你们每年要献出收成的十分之一； 23要在你们的上帝耶和华选定的敬拜场所，在祂面前吃所献的十分之一的谷物、新酒、油以及头生的牛羊。这是为了让你们学习一生敬畏你们的上帝耶和华。 24如果你们的上帝耶和华赐福你们，使你们丰收，而你们住的地方离祂选定的敬拜场所太远，以致不能把收成的十分之一送去， 25就可以把那些收成换成银钱带去。 26在那里，你们可以随意买牛、羊、淡酒或烈酒，然后一家人在你们的上帝耶和华面前吃喝快乐。 27不可忘记住在你们城里的利未人，因为利未人没有分到土地作产业。
28“每逢第三年末，你们要把那年所有出产的十分之一拿出来，存放在你们的城里， 29让你们城中没有土地的利未人、寄居者和孤儿寡妇都可以来吃饱。这样，你们的上帝耶和华必使你们凡事蒙福。
