1 "You are children of the LORD, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.
2 For you are a people sacred to the LORD, your God, who has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own.
3 "You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the red deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the ibex, the addax, the oryx, and the mountain sheep.
6 Any animal that has hoofs you may eat, provided it is cloven-footed and chews the cud.
7 But you shall not eat any of the following that only chew the cud or only have cloven hoofs: the camel, the hare and the rock badger, which indeed chew the cud, but do not have hoofs and are therefore unclean for you;
8 and the pig, which indeed has hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch.
9 "Of the various creatures that live in the water, whatever has both fins and scales you may eat,
10 but all those that lack either fins or scales you shall not eat; they are unclean for you.
11 "You may eat all clean birds.
12 But you shall not eat any of the following: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 the various kites and falcons,
14 all the various species of crows,
15 the ostrich, the nightjar, the gull, the various species of hawks,
16 the owl, the screech owl, the ibis,
17 the desert owl, the buzzard, the cormorant,
18 the stork, the various species of herons, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 All winged insects, too, are unclean for you and shall not be eaten.
20 But you may eat any clean winged creatures.
21 "You must not eat any animal that has died of itself, for you are a people sacred to the LORD, your God. But you may give it to an alien who belongs to your community, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
22 "Each year you shall tithe all the produce that grows in the field you have sown;
23 then in the place which the LORD, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his name you shall eat in his presence your tithe of the grain, wine and oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, that you may learn always to fear the LORD, your God.
24 If, however, the journey is too much for you and you are not able to bring your tithe, because the place which the LORD, your God, chooses for the abode of his name is too far for you, considering how the LORD has blessed you,
25 you may exchange the tithe for money and, with the purse of money in hand, go to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses.
26 You may then exchange the money for whatever you desire, oxen or sheep, wine or strong drink, or anything else you would enjoy, and there before the LORD, your God, you shall partake of it and make merry with your family.
27 But do not neglect the Levite who belongs to your community, for he has no share in the heritage with you.
28 "At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithes of your produce for that year and deposit them in community stores,
29 that the Levite who has no share in the heritage with you, and also the alien, the orphan and the widow who belong to your community, may come and eat their fill; so that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all that you undertake.
Versículos relacionados com Deuteronomy, 14:
Deuteronomy 14 deals mainly on God's dietary laws to the people of Israel, including which animals are considered pure and impure for consumption. Moreover, the chapter also addresses the importance of separating tithing and presenting it before the Lord.
Leviticus 11:47 - "To differentiate between the unclean and the pure, and between animals that can be eaten and the animals that cannot be eaten." This verse shows that the food laws were given by God to differentiate between pure and impure.
Acts 10:14 - "But Peter answered," Sir, because I have never eaten anything common and filthy. " Peter, a Jew, initially reluctant to eat with the Gentiles, but God instructs him not to call unclean what He has purified.
1 Timothy 4:4-5 - "For every creature of God is good, and there is nothing to reject, being received with thanksgiving. For by the Word of God and prayer is sanctified." This verse shows that all foods are pure, provided they are received with thanksgiving and sanctified by the Word of God.
Malachi 3:10 - "bring all tithes to the treasure house, that there may be maintenance in my house, and then prove me, says the Lord of hosts, if I do not open the windows of heaven, and do not pour out For such a blessing, that he warns you the greatest wealth. " This verse highlights the importance of bringing tithing to the house of the Lord and the promise of abundant blessings in response.
Luke 21:1-4 - "And, looking at him, he saw the rich launch his offers into the treasure ark; and he saw a poor widow also throw two small coins there; and said, Terde, I say unto you that he threw more than all This poor widow; for all those gave what he left; but this, of their poverty, gave all he had for his livelihood. " This verse highlights the importance of sacrifice in our offerings and tithes, regardless of the monetary value, and that God values the sincerity of the heart.
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