Deuteronomy Chapter 14

No disfiguring mourning for God’s children

14:1 Y‘all [are] sons of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
Y’all shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2 Because y’all [are] a holyקָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here
people to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
has chosen y’all to be a people to Him, a special treasure out of all the people who [are] on the face of earth.

Meats clean and unclean.

14:3 Y’all will not eat any disgusting thing.
14:4 These [are] the animals which y’all shall eat the ox, the flocked sheep, and the flocked goat,
14:5 The hart an adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old. Old English heorot, heort, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hert and German Hirsch., and the roebuck roebuck noun a male roe deer. ROE DEER – a small Eurasian deer which lacks a visible tail and has a reddish summer coat that turns grayish in winter., and the gazelle, and the wild goat, and the antelope, and the oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes. Their pelage is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight. For more info click here, and the chamois | SHamˈwä | (plural same | ˈʃamwɑːz | ) an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus.
Genus Rupicapra, family Bovidae: R. rupicapra (of the Alps, East, and southeastern Europe), and R. pyrenaica (of the Pyrenees and Apennines, also called izard).
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14:6 And y’all may eat every animal that divides the hoof, and divides  two hoofs wholly, [and] cause the cud to come up among the animals.
14:7 But y’all shall not eat of those that only cause the cud to come up, or of those only dividing the cloven hoof ; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger because they cause the cud to come up, but don’t divide the hoof . They [are] unclean to you.
14:8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, but doesn’t chews the cud, it [is] unclean to you Y’all shall not eat of their flesh, or touch their dead carcass.
14:9 These Y’all shall eat of all that [are] in the waters
Y’all shall eat all that have fins and scales.
14:10 And whatever doesn’t have fins and scales Y’all may not eat ; it [is] unclean to you.
14:11 Y’all can
eat [Of] all clean birds.
14:12 But these [are they] of which Y’all shall not eat the eagle, and the black vulture, and the bearded vulture,
14:13 And the hawk, and falcons, and the kite by its kind,
14:14 And all ravens by its kind,
14:15 And the ostrich, and the great owl, and the sea gull, and the small hawk after their kinds,
14:16 The little owl, and the eared owl, and, the barn owl and the swan,
14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant noun — a large diving bird with a long neck, long hooked bill, short legs, and mainly dark plumage. It typically breeds on coastal cliffs and is noted for its voracious appetite. Middle English: from Old French cormaran, from medieval Latin corvus marinus ‘sea raven’. The final -t is on the pattern of words such as peasant.,
14:18 And the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe | ˈho͞oˌpō, ˈho͞oˌpo͞o | noun — a salmon-pink Eurasian bird with a long down-curved bill, a large erectile crest, and black and white wings and tail. ORIGIN –mid 17th century: alteration of obsolete hoop, from Old French huppe, from Latin upupa, imitative of the bird’s call., and the bat.
14:19 And every swarming thing that flies [is] unclean to you they shall not be eaten.
14:20 Y’all
may eat all clean birds .
14:21 Y’all shall not eat [of] anything that dies of itself you will give it to the stranger that [is] in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an foreigner. Because you [are] a holyקָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here
people to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
. You will not simmer a kid in his mother’s milk.
14:22 Y’all will truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field yields year by year.

Tithes

14:23 And you will eat before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock ; that you may learn to fear YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
and your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
all your days.
14:24 And if the way is too long for y’all , so that you are not able to carry it; because the place is too far from y’all , which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
shall choose to set His name there, when YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
has blessed Y’all
14:25 Then will you turn [it] into silver, and bind up the silver in your hand, and will go to the place which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
shall choose
14:26 And you will pay that silver for whatever your soulנַפְשְׁךָ
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here
desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for fermented drink, or for whatever your soulנַפְשֶׁךָ
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here
desires and you will eat there before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, and you will rejoice, you, and your household,
14:27 And
you will not forsake the Levitesלְוִיִּם
/ˈliːvaɪt/ LEE-vyte;romanized: Lǝvīyyīm) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname Halevi, which consists of the Hebrew definite article “ה” Ha- (‘the’) plus Levi (‘Levite’) is not conclusive regarding being a Levite; a titular use of HaLevi indicates being a Levite. The daughter of a Levite is a Bat Levi (Bat being Hebrew for ‘daughter’) For more info click here
that [are] within y’alls gates ; because they have no portion or inheritance with y’all.
14:28 At the end of three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase, and will lay [it] up within your gates
14:29 And the Levitesלְוִיִּם
/ˈliːvaɪt/ LEE-vyte;romanized: Lǝvīyyīm) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname Halevi, which consists of the Hebrew definite article “ה” Ha- (‘the’) plus Levi (‘Levite’) is not conclusive regarding being a Levite; a titular use of HaLevi indicates being a Levite. The daughter of a Levite is a Bat Levi (Bat being Hebrew for ‘daughter’) For more info click here
, (because they have no portion or inheritance with y’all ,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied ; so that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
may bless y’all in all the work of your hand which you do.

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