Deuteronomy 13:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 13:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

Deuteronomy 13:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them.

Deuteronomy 13:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 13:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

Deuteronomy 13:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in

Deuteronomy 13:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known),

Deuteronomy 13:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.

Deuteronomy 13:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,

Deuteronomy 13:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 13)

and none of the condemned things are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors-

Deuteronomy 14:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

Deuteronomy 14:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.

Deuteronomy 14:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

Deuteronomy 14:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Deuteronomy 14:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

Deuteronomy 14:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 14:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.

Deuteronomy 14:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 14:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away),

Deuteronomy 14:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 14:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice.

Deuteronomy 14:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 14)

At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns,