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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 14:12

but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Eagle;   Osprey;   Ossifrage;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Birds;   Eagle, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Ossifrage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Eagle;   Food;   Osprey;   Ossifrage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ospray;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean, Cleanness;   Ospray, Osprey;   Ossifrage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Leviticus;   Ospray;   Ossifrage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Ospray, (Osprey);   Ossifrage;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Eagle;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Osprey;   Ossifrage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination, Birds of;   Birds, Unclean;   Cormorant;   Eagle;   Fowl;   Gier-Eagle;   Ospray;   Ossifrage;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Dietary Laws;   Eagle;   Osprey;   Ossifrage;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but these are the ones you may not eat:
Hebrew Names Version
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the peres, and the ozniah,
King James Version
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Lexham English Bible
Now these are the ones you shall not eat any of them: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,
English Standard Version
But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
New Century Version
But do not eat these birds: eagles, vultures, black vultures,
New English Translation
These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
Amplified Bible
"But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black buzzard,
New American Standard Bible
"But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But these are they, whereof ye shall not eate: the egle, nor the goshawke, nor the osprey,
Legacy Standard Bible
But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
Contemporary English Version
But don't eat the meat of any of the following birds: eagles, vultures, falcons, kites, ravens, ostriches, owls, sea gulls, hawks, pelicans, ospreys, cormorants, storks, herons, and hoopoes. You must not eat bats.
Darby Translation
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
Easy-to-Read Version
But don't eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,
George Lamsa Translation
But these are the ones of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the raven after its kind,
Good News Translation
But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; and bats.
Literal Translation
But you shall not eat of these: the eagle, the black vulture, and the bearded vulture,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But these are they, wherof ye shal not eate: The Aegle, ye Goshauke, the Cormoraunte,
American Standard Version
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
Bible in Basic English
But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But these are they of whiche ye shall not eate: the Egle, the Goshauke, and the Ospray.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;
King James Version (1611)
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the Eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
English Revised Version
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier eagle, and the ospray;
Berean Standard Bible
but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ete ye not vncleene briddis, that is, an egle, and a gripe,
Young's Literal Translation
and these [are] they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Update Bible Version
But these are those of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
Webster's Bible Translation
But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
World English Bible
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
New King James Version
But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
New Living Translation
These are the birds you may not eat: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
New Life Bible
But these are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
New Revised Standard
But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
saving these, of which ye may not eat, - the eagle and the ossifrage and the osprey;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,
Revised Standard Version
But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Contextual Overview

1 (iv) "You are the people of Adonai your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead, 2 because you are a people set apart as holy for Adonai your God. Adonai your God has chosen you to be his own unique treasure out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 3 "You are not to eat anything disgusting. 4 The animals which you may eat are: ox, sheep, goat, 5 deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx and mountain sheep. 6 Any animal that has a separate hoof that is completely divided and also chews the cud, these animals you may eat. 7 But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof. For example, the camel, the hare and the coney are unclean for you because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof; 8 while the pig is unclean for you because, although it has a separate hoof, it doesn't chew the cud. You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses. 9 "Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat. 10 But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:13-19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - any unclean

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
Here is the genealogy of Terach. Terach fathered Avram, Nachor and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
Genesis 12:5
Avram took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran; then they set out for the land of Kena‘an and entered the land of Kena‘an.
Genesis 14:9
against K'dorla‘omer king of ‘Elam, Tid‘al king of Goyim, Amrafel king of Admah and Aryokh king of Elasar, four kings against the five.
Genesis 14:11
The victors took all the possessions of S'dom and ‘Amora and all their food supply; then they left.
Genesis 14:12
But as they left, they took Lot, Avram's brother's son, and his possessions; since he was living in S'dom.
Genesis 14:13
Someone who had escaped came and told Avram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Emori, brother of Eshkol and brother of ‘Aner; all of them allies of Avram.
Genesis 14:17
After his return from slaughtering K'dorla‘omer and the kings with him, the king of S'dom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley, also known as the King's Valley.
Genesis 14:19
so he blessed him with these words: "Blessed be Avram by El ‘Elyon, maker of heaven of earth.
Numbers 16:26
There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins."
Job 9:23
When disaster brings sudden death, he laughs at the plight of the innocent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 12-18. But these are they of which they shall not eat,.... Jarchi observes, that the unclean birds are particularly mentioned, to teach that the clean sort are more than the unclean, and therefore the particulars of the fewest are given: these are all the same names as in

Leviticus 11:13, excepting one, "the glede", Deuteronomy 14:13 which is a kind of kite or puttock; the Jerusalem Targum renders it the vulture, and the Targum of Jonathan the white "dayetha" or vulture; and Aristotle says q there are two sorts of vultures, the one small and whiter, the other larger and of many forms or colours; in Hebrew its name here is "raah", and is thought to be the same with "daah" in Leviticus 11:14 there translated the "vulture", which has its name there from flying, and here from seeing, for which it is remarkable; see Job 28:7 and the letters ד and ר are pretty much alike, and are sometimes changed, but there is another here, in Deuteronomy 14:13 mentioned, the "dayah", which is not mentioned in Leviticus 11:1, though some think it the same with the "ayah", rendered both here and there the "kite"; perhaps it means another sort of vulture, the black vulture, as the Targum of Jonathan.

q Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 3.

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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