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.
做聖潔的子民
1「你們是你們上帝耶和華的兒女，不可為死人割傷自己或剃光前額。 2因為你們是你們的上帝耶和華的聖民，祂從天下萬族中揀選你們作祂寶貴的產業。
3「你們不可吃任何可憎之物。 4但你們可以吃牛、綿羊、山羊、 5鹿、羚羊、麅子、野山羊、瞪羚、黃羊和野綿羊。 6凡蹄子分瓣且反芻的動物，你們都可以吃。 7在那些只反芻或只是蹄子分瓣的動物中，你們不可吃駱駝、野兔和石獾，因為牠們雖反芻但蹄子不分瓣，是不潔淨的。 8你們也不可吃豬，因為豬雖蹄子分瓣但不反芻，是不潔淨的。你們不可吃這些動物的肉，也不可摸牠們的屍體。
9「水族中，凡有鰭有鱗的，你們都可以吃。 10凡無鰭無鱗的都不潔淨，你們不可吃。
11「你們可以吃潔淨的鳥類。 12不可吃的鳥類有鵰、胡兀鷲、黑禿鷲、 13鳶、隼類、 14烏鴉類、 15鴕鳥、夜鷹、海鷗、鷹類、 16小鴞、大鴞、倉鴞、 17鵜鶘、魚鷹、鸕鷀、 18鸛、鷺鳥類、戴鵀和蝙蝠。
19「凡有翅膀、會爬的昆蟲都不潔淨，你們不可吃。 20凡有翅膀的潔淨之物，你們都可以吃。
21「你們不可吃死掉的動物，但可以送給住在你們城裡的外族人吃，或賣給其他外族人。因為你們是你們的上帝耶和華的聖民。你們不可用母山羊的奶煮牠的羊羔。
十一奉獻
22「你們每年要獻出收成的十分之一； 23要在你們的上帝耶和華選定的敬拜場所，在祂面前吃所獻的十分之一的穀物、新酒、油以及頭生的牛羊。這是為了讓你們學習一生敬畏你們的上帝耶和華。 24如果你們的上帝耶和華賜福你們，使你們豐收，而你們住的地方離祂選定的敬拜場所太遠，以致不能把收成的十分之一送去， 25就可以把那些收成換成銀錢，帶到你們的上帝耶和華選定的場所。 26在那裡，你們可以隨意買牛、羊、淡酒或烈酒，然後一家人在你們的上帝耶和華面前吃喝快樂。 27不可忘記住在你們城裡的利未人，因為利未人沒有分到土地作產業。
28「每逢第三年末，你們要把那年所有出產的十分之一拿出來，存放在你們的城裡， 29讓你們城中沒有土地的利未人、寄居者和孤兒寡婦都可以來吃飽。這樣，你們的上帝耶和華必使你們凡事蒙福。
