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Deuteronomy 14:20

But you may eat any clean bird.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   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:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Dietary Laws;   Nebelah;   Pharisees;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you may eat every clean flying creature.
Hebrew Names Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
King James Version
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Lexham English Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
English Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New Century Version
Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.
New English Translation
You may eat any clean bird.
Amplified Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New American Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
Legacy Standard Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
Contemporary English Version
However, you are allowed to eat certain kinds of winged insects.
Complete Jewish Bible
but all clean flying creatures you may eat.
Darby Translation
All clean fowls shall ye eat.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat of anything that is unclean, but you shall give it to the stranger who is in your towns, that he may eat it.
Good News Translation
You may eat any clean insect.
Literal Translation
You may eat of all clean birds.
American Standard Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Bible in Basic English
But all clean birds you may take.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of all clean winged things ye may eat.
King James Version (1611)
But of all cleane foules ye may eat.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat every clean bird.
English Revised Version
Of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Berean Standard Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye al thing that is cleene; sotheli what euer thing is deed bi it silf, ete ye not therof.
Young's Literal Translation
any clean fowl ye do eat.
Update Bible Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
World English Bible
Of all clean birds you may eat.
New King James Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
New Living Translation
But you may eat any winged bird or insect that is ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
New Revised Standard
You may eat any clean winged creature.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All clean fowls, ye may eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All that is clean, you shall eat.
Revised Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You may eat any clean bird.

Contextual Overview

1 "You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness. 2 This is because you are different from other people. You belong to the Lord your God. From all the people in the world, the Lord chose you to be his own special people. 3 "Don't eat anything that the Lord hates. 4 You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, 5 deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild sheep, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep. 6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud. 7 But don't eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. These animals chew the cud, but they don't have split hooves. So these animals are not a clean food for you. 8 And you must not eat pigs. Their hooves are divided, but they don't chew the cud. So pigs are not a clean food for you. Don't eat any meat from pigs. Don't even touch a pig's dead body. 9 "You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales. 10 But don't eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
Noah also said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem's slave.
Genesis 14:3
All these kings joined their armies in the Valley of Siddim. (The Valley of Siddim is now the Salt Sea.)
Genesis 14:4
These kings had served Kedorlaomer for twelve years. But in the 13th year, they all rebelled against him.
Genesis 14:5
So in the 14th year, King Kedorlaomer and the kings with him came to fight against them. Kedorlaomer and the kings with him defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim. They also defeated the Zuzites in Ham. They defeated the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
Genesis 14:6
And they defeated the Horites who lived in the area from the hill country of Seir to El Paran. (El Paran is near the desert.)
Genesis 14:9
They fought against King Kedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar. So there were four kings fighting against five.
Genesis 14:17
Then Abram went home after he defeated Kedorlaomer and the kings with him. On his way home, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh. (This is now called King's Valley.)
Genesis 14:19
He blessed Abram and said, "Abram, may you be blessed by God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Genesis 24:27
He said, "Praise be to the Lord , the God of my master Abraham. The Lord has been kind and loyal to him by leading me to his own people."
Genesis 28:22
I am setting this stone up as a memorial stone. It will show that this is a holy place for God, and I will give God one-tenth of all he gives me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is

"every clean locust ye may eat;''

see Leviticus 11:22.

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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