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Brenton's Septuagint

Deuteronomy 14:10

And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Fish;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fishes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clean and Unclean;   Fish, Fisher;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fish;   Food;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Food;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Leviticus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.
Hebrew Names Version
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Lexham English Bible
But anything that does not have fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you.
English Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Century Version
but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New English Translation
but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
Amplified Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.
Legacy Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Contemporary English Version
and if they do not have fins and scales, you must not eat them. Treat them as unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible
But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.
Darby Translation
but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.
Easy-to-Read Version
But don't eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.
George Lamsa Translation
And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Good News Translation
but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.
Literal Translation
And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But what so euer hath no fynnes ner scales, that shal ye not eate, for it is vncleane vnto you.
American Standard Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Bible in Basic English
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whatsoeuer hath not finnes and scales, of that ye may not eate, but it is vncleane vnto you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
King James Version (1611)
And whatsoeuer hath not sinnes and scales, ye may not eat: it is vncleane vnto you.
English Revised Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Berean Standard Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ete ye not tho thingis that ben with out fynnes and scalis, for tho ben vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.
Update Bible Version
and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.
World English Bible
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
New King James Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Living Translation
You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
New Life Bible
But do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New Revised Standard
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, - unclean, it is unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
Revised Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Contextual Overview

1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you 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. 4 014 5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - any unclean Leviticus 11:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save thine own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps thou be overtaken together with them.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Segor, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Segor; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
Joshua 8:24
And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them even to the end, then Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Psalms 83:10
They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
Isaiah 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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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.


 
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