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Deuteronomy 14:14-24 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

14. and any kind of crow according to its kind,

15. and the ostrich and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

16. the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl,

17. and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

18. and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.

19. And also all of the winged insects; they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them.

20. You may eat any clean bird.

21. “You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who is in your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

22. “Certainly you must give a tithe of all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from your field year after year.

23. And you shall eat before Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God always.

24. But if the distance is too great for you, so that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is too far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,

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