Deuteronomy 14:19

Bible in Basic English

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

Hebrew Names Version
All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Lexham English Bible
And also all of the winged insects; they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them.

English Standard Version
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

New Century Version
All insects with wings are unclean for you; do not eat them.

New English Translation
and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you—they may not be eaten.

Amplified Bible
"And all flying insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

New American Standard Bible
"And all the swarming insects with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.

Legacy Standard Bible
And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

Contemporary English Version
Swarming insects are unclean, so don't eat them.

Complete Jewish Bible
"All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;

Darby Translation
And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

Easy-to-Read Version
"All insects with wings are unclean, so don't eat them.

George Lamsa Translation
But of all dean birds you shall eat.

Good News Translation
"All winged insects are unclean; do not eat them.

Literal Translation
And every teeming thing that flies shall be unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all foules yt crepe, shal be vncleane vnto you, and ye shal not eate them.

American Standard Version
And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And let euery creeping thing that fleeth, be vncleane vnto you, and not be eaten of.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all winged swarming things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

King James Version (1611)
And euery creeping thing that flyeth, is vncleane vnto you: they shall not be eaten.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.

English Revised Version
And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

Berean Standard Bible
All flying insects that swarm are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al thing that crepith, and hath fynnes, schal be vncleene, and schal not be etun.

Young's Literal Translation
and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it [is] to you; they are not eaten;

Update Bible Version
And all winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

Webster's Bible Translation
And every creeping animal that flieth [is] unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

World English Bible
All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

New King James Version
"Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

New Living Translation
"All winged insects that walk along the ground are ceremonially unclean for you and may not be eaten.

New Life Bible
And all flying bugs are unclean for you. Do not eat them.

New Revised Standard
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you, - they, shall not be eaten.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

Revised Standard Version
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

THE MESSAGE
Winged insects are ritually unclean; don't eat them. But ritually clean winged creatures are permitted.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

Contextual Overview

¹ You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead; ² For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. ³ No disgusting thing may be your food. ⁴ These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; ⁵ The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep. ⁶ Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food. ⁷ But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two. ⁸ And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you. ⁹ And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates. ¹⁰ But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 11:20-23, Philippians 3:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:10 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 14:6
And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

Genesis 14:7
Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 14:9
Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

Genesis 14:16
And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14:23
That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

Genesis 27:4
And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.

Genesis 47:7
Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

Genesis 47:10
And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.

Genesis 49:28
These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;

"all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Leviticus 11:0. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker.

Deuteronomy 14:5

The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the “wild ox” and “chamois” are swift types of antelope.

Deuteronomy 14:21

The prohibition is repeated from Leviticus 22:8. The directions as to the disposal of the carcass are unique to Deuteronomy, and their motive is clear. To have forbidden the people either themselves to eat that which had died, or to allow any others to do so, would have involved loss of property, and consequent temptation to an infraction of the command. The permissions now for the first time granted would have been useless in the wilderness. During the 40 years’ wandering there could be but little opportunity of selling such carcasses; while non-Israelites living in the camp would in such a matter be bound by the same rules as the Israelites Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 24:22. Further, it would seem (compare Leviticus 17:15) that greater stringency is here given to the requirement of abstinence from that which had died of itself. Probably on this, as on so many other points, allowance was made for the circumstances of the people. Flesh meat was no doubt often scarce in the desert. It would therefore have been a hardship to forbid entirely the use of that which had not been killed. However, now that the plenty of the promised land was before them, the modified toleration of this unholy food was withdrawn.