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Good News Translation

Deuteronomy 14:11

"You may eat any clean bird.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Bird;   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 - Clean;   Food;   Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Clean and Unclean Animals;   Commandments, the 613;   Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;   Sacrifice;   Yiẓḥaḳ (Isaac);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You may eat every clean bird,
Hebrew Names Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
King James Version
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
Lexham English Bible
"All of the birds that are clean you may eat.
English Standard Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
New Century Version
You may eat any clean bird.
New English Translation
All ritually clean birds you may eat.
Amplified Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New American Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:
Legacy Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Contemporary English Version
You can eat any clean bird.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You may eat any clean bird;
Darby Translation
All clean birds shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You may eat any clean bird.
George Lamsa Translation
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
Literal Translation
You shall eat of all clean birds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Eate of all cleane foules.
American Standard Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Bible in Basic English
All clean birds may be used for food.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of all cleane byrdes ye shall eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
King James Version (1611)
Of all cleane birds ye shall eate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat every clean bird.
English Revised Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Berean Standard Bible
You may eat any clean bird,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye alle clene briddis;
Young's Literal Translation
`Any clean bird ye do eat;
Update Bible Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.
World English Bible
Of all clean birds you may eat.
New King James Version
"All clean birds you may eat.
New Living Translation
"You may eat any bird that is ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New Revised Standard
You may eat any clean birds.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of every clean bird, ye may eat;
Douay-Rheims Bible
All birds that are clean you shall eat.
Revised Standard Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
THE MESSAGE
You may eat any ritually clean bird. These are the exceptions, so don't eat these: eagle, vulture, black vulture, kite, falcon, the buzzard family, the raven family, ostrich, nighthawk, the hawk family, little owl, great owl, white owl, pelican, osprey, cormorant, stork, the heron family, hoopoe, bat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You may eat any clean bird.

Contextual Overview

1 "You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do. 2 You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth. 3 "Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean. 4 You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, 5 deer, wild sheep, wild goats, or antelopes— 6 any animals that have divided hoofs and that also chew the cud. 7 But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs. 8 Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies. 9 "You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales, 10 but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
Genesis 14:16
and got back all the loot that had been taken. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other prisoners.
Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Keep the loot, but give me back all my people."
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of all clean birds ye shall eat. Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides p observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.

p Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

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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