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Deuteronomy 14 outlines dietary laws, tithing duties, and social responsibilities, emphasizing Israel’s holiness and care for the marginalized.
Deuteronomy 14 commands Israel to observe dietary restrictions, listing clean and unclean animals and prohibiting the consumption of certain birds and fish without fins and scales. It also forbids eating dead meat and mixing milk with meat. The chapter instructs the Israelites to tithe every year’s produce, bringing the tithe to a central sanctuary for consumption with the people, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. If traveling to the sanctuary is difficult, the tithe may be converted into money and used for purchases before being brought there. The passage emphasizes the importance of communal worship, the covenant with God, and the obligation to care for vulnerable members of society.
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Instructional and descriptive tone.