# Deuteronomy 14 📖: Clean Food and Tithes [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Deuteronomy Overview]] | [[Deuteronomy 13]] | [[Deuteronomy 15]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Holy and the Profane [[#Verse 01.]] You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.  [[#Verse 02.]] For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth. [[#Verse 03.]] You must not eat any forbidden thing.  [[#Verse 04.]] These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,  [[#Verse 05.]] the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.  [[#Verse 06.]] You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud. [[#Verse 07.]] However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you.)  [[#Verse 08.]] Also, the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains. [[#Verse 09.]] These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,  [[#Verse 10.]] but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you. [[#Verse 11.]] All ritually clean birds you may eat.  [[#Verse 12.]] These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,  [[#Verse 13.]] the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,  [[#Verse 14.]] every raven after its species,  [[#Verse 15.]] the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,  [[#Verse 16.]] the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,  [[#Verse 17.]] the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,  [[#Verse 18.]] the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, and the bat. [[#Verse 19.]] And any swarming winged thing is impure to you—they may not be eaten.  [[#Verse 20.]] You may eat any winged creature that is clean.  [[#Verse 21.]] You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. ### The Offering of Tithes [[#Verse 22.]] You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.  [[#Verse 23.]] In the presence of the Lord your God, in the place he chooses to locate his name, you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.  [[#Verse 24.]] When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,  [[#Verse 25.]] you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.  [[#Verse 26.]] Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.  [[#Verse 27.]] As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.  [[#Verse 28.]] At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.  [[#Verse 29.]] Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Israel was not to cut themselves or shave their foreheads for the dead (14:1), practices tied to pagan mourning. 2. Land animals that were clean had to have split hooves and chew the cud (14:6). 3. Water creatures had to have fins and scales to be eaten (14:9). 4. The command not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk (14:21) also appears in Exodus 23:19 and 34:26. It is the basis for the Jewish practice of separating meat and dairy. 5. The bat is listed among the unclean birds (14:18), following an ancient way of grouping flying creatures. 6. A foreigner could eat an animal that died naturally, but an Israelite could not (14:21). 7. If the journey was too far, the tithe could be sold and the money used to buy food and drink at the sanctuary (14:24-26). 8. Every third year the tithe was stored in local towns for those in need (14:28-29). 9. Jesus declared all foods clean (Mark 7:19), and Peter's vision taught the same lesson (Acts 10:15). 10. The parallel list of clean and unclean animals is found in Leviticus 11. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One who makes us clean. The food laws set Israel apart as holy (14:2), and Jesus declared all foods clean while calling for clean hearts (Mark 7:18-23; Acts 10:15). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Israel's diet reminded them daily that they belonged to God (14:2). What everyday habits remind you that you belong to Him? 2. The tithe was to be eaten with joy before the Lord (14:23-26). How does this change the way you think about giving? 3. Every third year the tithe fed the Levite, foreigner, orphan, and widow (14:28-29). How can your generosity care for the vulnerable? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 1-2: You are children of the Lord and a holy people He has chosen. - 📖 verse 23: Tithe so you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. - 📖 verse 29: The Levite, foreigner, orphan, and widow will eat and be satisfied. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Leviticus 11|Leviticus 11]] - Clean and unclean animals. - 🔗 [[Mark 07#Verse 18.|Mark 7:18-23]] - What comes out of the heart defiles a person. - 🔗 [[Acts 10#Verse 09.|Acts 10:9-16]] - Peter's vision of clean and unclean animals. - 🔗 [[1 Peter 02#Verse 09.|1 Peter 2:9]] - A holy nation, God's own people. - 🔗 [[Malachi 03#Verse 10.|Malachi 3:10]] - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 📂 Internal Notes