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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 14:17

pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

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,
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,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
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 (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

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
As Yiftach was returning to his house in Mitzpah, his daughter came dancing out to meet him with tambourines. She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
As David and the others were returning from the slaughter of the P'lishti, the women came out of all the cities of Isra'el to meet King Sha'ul, singing and dancing joyfully with tambourines and three-stringed instruments.
2 Samuel 18:18
In his own lifetime Avshalom had taken and raised for himself the pillar which stands in the King's Valley; because he said, "I don't have a son to preserve the memory of my name." So he named the pillar after himself, and it's called Avshalom's Monument to this day.
Proverbs 14:20
The poor are disliked even by their peers, but the rich have many friends.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth brings in many friends, but the poor man loses the one friend he has.
Hebrews 7:1
This Malki-Tzedek, king of Shalem, a cohen of God Ha‘Elyon, met Avraham on his way back from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him ;

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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