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Deuteronomy 14:3

"Don't eat anything that the Lord hates.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Cud;   Hoof;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Cleanness;   Meat;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You must not eat any detestable thing.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
King James Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Lexham English Bible
You shall not eat any detestable thing.
English Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abomination.
New Century Version
Do not eat anything the Lord hates.
New English Translation
You must not eat any forbidden thing.
Amplified Bible
"You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the LORD and forbidden by Him].
New American Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.
Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Contemporary English Version
Don't eat any disgusting animals.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You are not to eat anything disgusting.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Good News Translation
"Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean.
Literal Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt eate no abhominacion.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Bible in Basic English
No disgusting thing may be your food.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abhomination.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not eate any abominable thing.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye not tho thingis that ben vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
Update Bible Version
You shall not eat any disgusting thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
World English Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
New King James Version
Leviticus 11:1-47">[xr] "You shall not eat any detestable thing.
New Living Translation
"You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean.
New Life Bible
"Do not eat any hated thing.
New Revised Standard
You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Eat not the things that are unclean.
Revised Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.
THE MESSAGE
Don't eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep—any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud. But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven hoof—that makes them ritually unclean. And pigs: Don't eat pigs—they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.

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

Leviticus 11:43, Leviticus 20:25, Isaiah 65:4, Ezekiel 4:14, Acts 10:12-14, Romans 14:14, 1 Corinthians 10:28, Titus 1:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:3 - Every Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 11:2 - General Leviticus 11:10 - they shall be Isaiah 66:17 - behind one tree in the midst Ezekiel 8:10 - every Colossians 2:16 - in meat Hebrews 9:10 - in meats Hebrews 13:9 - not with

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
and the Lord began to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He caused fire and burning sulfur to fall from the sky.
Numbers 34:12
Then the border will continue along the Jordan River. It will end at the Dead Sea. These are the borders around your country."
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River near the desert is their western border. Lake Galilee is north of this area and the Dead Sea is to the south. It is at the bottom of the cliffs of Pisgah, which are to the east.
Joshua 3:16
immediately the water stopped flowing and piled up like a wall. The water piled up high a long way up the river—all the way to Adam (a town near Zarethan). And the water flowing down to the sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. The people crossed the river near Jericho.
Psalms 107:34
He made the fertile land become salty, because the people living there did such evil things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.

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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