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Brenton's Septuagint

Deuteronomy 14:17

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Birds;   Cormorants;   Pelicans;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Cormorant;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Pelicans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Carrion Vulture;   Clean, Cleanness;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Cormorant;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Leviticus;   Pelican;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Cormorant;   Gier Eagle,;   Pelican;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Owl;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Cormorant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gier-Eagle,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Pelican;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination, Birds of;   Birds, Unclean;   Cormorant;   Fowl;   Gier-Eagle;   Pelican;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Cormorant;   Dietary Laws;   Pelican;   Pharisees;   Vulture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
eagle owls,
Hebrew Names Version
and the ka`at, and the rakham, and the shalakh,
King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
Lexham English Bible
and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
English Standard Version
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New Century Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
New English Translation
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Amplified Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:
Legacy Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Complete Jewish Bible
pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,
Darby Translation
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,
Easy-to-Read Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
George Lamsa Translation
The desert cock, and the peacock,
Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the owl, and the cormorant,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Bytture, the Swanne, the Pellicane, the Pye,
American Standard Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Bible in Basic English
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Pellicane, the Swanne, nor the Cormorant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;
King James Version (1611)
And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant,
English Revised Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;
Berean Standard Bible
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a swan, and a siconye, and a dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous, a cormeraunt,
Young's Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
Update Bible Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
World English Bible
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
New King James Version
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,
New Living Translation
the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,
New Life Bible
the pelican, the vulture that eats dead flesh, the cormorant,
New Revised Standard
and the desert owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
Revised Standard Version
and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

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

gier: Rachamah, probably a species of vulture, still called in Arabic by the same name.

the cormorant: Shalach, probably the cataract, or plungeon, a sea fowl. Deuteronomy 14:17

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
And Jephthae came to Massepha to his house; and behold, his daughter came forth to meet him with timbrels and dances; and she was his only child, he had not another son or daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
And there came out women in dances to meet David out of all the cities of Israel, with timbrels, and with rejoicing, and with cymbals.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Abessalom while yet alive had taken and set up for himself the pillar near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king’s dale; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: and he called the pillar, Abessalom’s hand, until this day.
Proverbs 14:20
Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

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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