Verse 4
Deuteronomy 14:4
Bible in Basic English
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These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Original Language Text
hebrew
זֹ֥את הַ/בְּהֵמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאכֵ֑לוּ שׁ֕וֹר שֵׂ֥ה כְשָׂבִ֖ים וְ/שֵׂ֥ה עִזִּֽים
English Translation
This is the animal that you may eat: an ox, a sheep, and goats.
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Chapter 14 Context
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You are the children of the Lord your God (Elohim): you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take...
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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God (Elohim), and the Lord has taken you to be his specia...
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No disgusting thing may be your food.
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These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
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The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mounta...
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Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to b...
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But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, an...
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And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food do...
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9
And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and...
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10
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
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All clean birds may be used for food.
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But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
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The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;
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Every raven, and all birds of that sort;
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And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
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The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
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And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
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The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
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19
Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
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But all clean birds you may take.
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You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country wh...
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22
Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.
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23
And make a feast before the Lord your God (Elohim), in the place which is to be marked out, where hi...
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And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the...
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Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place ma...
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And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatev...
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And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land...
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At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in...
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And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country,...
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