Deuteronomy 14
Brenton's Septuagint in Greek and English. Each column preserves its source's verse numbering.
Greek text or English translation.
Greek Septuagint
1 Υἱοί ἐστε Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν· οὐκ ἐπιθήσετε φαλάκρωμα ἀναμέσον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ.
2 Ὅτι λαὸς ἅγιος εἶ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου, καὶ σε ἐξελέξατο Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου γενέσθαι σε λαὸν αὐτῷ περιούσιον ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν ἐπὶ προσώπου τῆς γῆς.
3 Οὐ φάγεσθε πᾶν βδέλυγμα.
4 Ταῦτα κτήνη ἃ φάγεσθε· μόσχον ἐκ βοῶν, καὶ ἀμνὸν ἐκ προβάτων, καὶ χίμαρον ἐξ αἰγῶν·
5 ἔλαφον, καὶ δορκάδα, καὶ πύγαργον, ὄρυγα, καὶ καμηλοπάρδαλιν.
6 Πᾶν κτῆνος διχηλοῦν ὁπλὴν, καὶ ὀνυχιστῆρας ὀνυχίζον δύο χηλῶν, καὶ ἀνάγον μηρυκισμὸν ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσι, ταῦτα φάγεσθε.
7 Καὶ ταῦτα οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀναγόντων μηρυκισμὸν, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν διχηλούντων τὰς ὁπλὰς, καὶ ὀνυχιζόντων ὀνυχιστῆρας· τὸν κάμηλον, καὶ δασύποδα, καὶ χοιρογρύλλιον· ὅτι ἀνάγουσι μηρυκισμὸν, καὶ ὁπλὴν οὐ διχηλοῦσιν, ἀκάθαρτα ταῦτα ὑμῖν ἐστι.
8 Καὶ τὸν ὗν, ὅτι διχηλεῖ ὁπλὴν τοῦτο, καὶ ὀνυχίζει ὀνυχιστῆρας ὁπλῆς, καὶ τοῦτο μηρυκισμὸν οὐ μηρυκᾶται ἀκάθαρτον τοῦτο ὑμῖν· ἀπὸ τῶν κρεῶν αὐτῶν οὐ φάγεσθε, τῶν θνησιμαίων αὐτῶν οὐχ ἅψεσθε.
9 Καὶ ταῦτα φάγεσθε ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐν τῷ ὕδατι, πάντα ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτοῖς πτερύγια καὶ λεπίδες, φάγεσθε.
10 Καὶ πάντα ὅσα οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς πτερύγια καὶ λεπίδες, οὐ φάγεσθε· ἀκάθαρτα ὑμῖν ἐστι.
11 Πᾶν ὄρνεον καθαρὸν φάγεσθε.
12 Καὶ ταῦτα οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτῶν· τὸν ἀετὸν, καὶ τὸν γρύπα, καὶ τὸν ἁλιάετον,
13 καὶ τὸν γύπα, καὶ τὸν ἴκτινον, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ,
15 καὶ στρουθὸν, καὶ γλαῦκα, καὶ λάρον,
16 καὶ ἐρωδιὸν, καὶ κύκνον, καὶ ἶβιν,
17 καὶ καταράκτην, καὶ ἱέρακα, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ, καὶ ἔποπα, καὶ νυκτικόρακα,
18 καὶ πελακᾶνα, καὶ χαραδριὸν, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ, καὶ πορφυρίωνα, καὶ νυκτερίδα.
19 Πάντα τὰ ἑρπετὰ τῶν πετεινῶν ἀκάθαρτά ἐστιν ὑμῖν· οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτῶν.
20 Πᾶν πετεινὸν καθαρὸν φάγεσθε.
21 Πᾶν θνησιμαῖον οὐ φάγεσθε· τῷ παροίκῳ τῷ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσί σου δοθήσεται καὶ φάγεται, ἢ ἀποδώσῃ τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ, ὅτι λαὸς ἅγιος εἶ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου. Οὐχ ἑψήσεις ἄρνα ἐν γάλακτι μητρὸς αὐτοῦ.
22 Δεκάτην ἀποδεκατώσεις παντὸς γεννήματος τοῦ σπέρματός σου, τὸ γέννημα τοῦ ἀγροῦ σου ἐνιαυτὸν κατʼ ἐνιαυτόν.
23 Καὶ φαγῇ αὐτὸ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, ᾧ ἐὰν ἐκλέξηται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐπικληθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ· οἴσετε τὰ ἐπιδέκατα τοῦ σίτου σου, καὶ τοῦ οἴνου σου, καὶ τοῦ ἐλαίου σου, τὰ πρωτότοκα τῶν βοῶν σου, καὶ τῶν προβάτων σου, ἵνα μάθῃς φοβεῖσθαι Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.
24 Ἐὰν δὲ μακρὰν γένηται ἡ ὁδὸς ἀπὸ σοῦ, καὶ μὴ δύνῃ ἀναφέρειν αὐτὰ, ὅτι μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ ὁ τόπος, ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐπικληθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ, ὅτι εὐλογήσει σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σοῦ,
25 καὶ ἀποδώσῃ αὐτὰ ἀργυρίου, καὶ λήψῃ τὸ ἀργύριον ἐν ταῖς χερσί σου, καὶ πορεύσῃ εἰς τὸν τόπον ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου αὐτόν.
26 Καὶ δώσεις ἀργύριον ἐπὶ παντὸς οὗ ἂν ἐπιθυμεῇ ἡ ψυχή σου, ἐπὶ βουσὶν ἤ ἐπὶ προβάτοις, ἢ ἐτʼ οἴνῳ ἢ ἐπὶ σίκερα, ἢ ἐπὶ σίκερα, ἢ ἐπὶ παντὸς οὗ ἂν ἐπιθυμῇ ἡ φυχή σου, καὶ φαγῇ ἐκεῖ ἐναντίον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου, καὶ εὐφρανθήσῃ σὺ καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου,
27 καὶ ὁ Λευίτης ὁ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσί σου, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ μερὶς οὐδὲ κλῆρος μετὰ σοῦ.
28 Μετὰ τρία ἔτη ἐξοίσεις πᾶν τὸ ἐπιδέκατον τῶν γεννημάτων σου, ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐκείνῳ θήσεις αὐτὸ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσί σου.
29 Καὶ ἐλεύσεται ὁ Λευίτης, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ μερὶς οὐδὲ κλῆρος μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ ὁ προσήλυτος καὶ ὁ ὀρφανὸς καὶ ἡ χήρα ἡ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσί σου, καὶ φάγονται καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται, ἵνα εὐλογήσῃ σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις οἷς ἐὰν ποιῇς.
Brenton English
1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
3 Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
buffalo.
6 Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.
7 And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
8 And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead bodies.
9 And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.
10 And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
11 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
12 And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
birds.
13 and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the sea-mew,
16 and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
18 and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
heron.
flamingo.
19 All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.
20 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
21 Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the journey be too far for thee, and thou art not able to bring them, because the place is far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee;
25 then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
26 And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or thou shalt lay it out on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy house,
27 and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.
28 After three years thou shalt bring out all the tithes of thy fruits, in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy cities.
29 And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.
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Source and license
L. C. L. Brenton, The Septuagint Version, 1851. Public domain. eBible.org transcription.. Public Domain. Greek source edition.
Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton. Public Domain. English source edition.
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