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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Deuteronomy 14:12

But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the Eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,
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;
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 Yee are the children of the Lord your God: yee shall not cutte your selues, nor make any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people vnto himselfe, aboue all the nations that are vpon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eate any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which yee shall eate: the oxe, the sheepe, and the goat, 5 The Hart, and the Roe bucke, and the fallow deere, and the wilde goat, and the Pygarg, and the wilde oxe, and the chamois. 6 And euery beast that parteth the hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and cheweth the cud amongst the beasts: that ye shall eate. 7 Neuerthelesse these yee shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, or of them that diuide the clouen hoofe, as the camel, and the hare, and the cony: for they chew the cudde, but diuide not the hoofe, therefore they are vncleane vnto you. 8 And the swine, because it diuideth the hoofe, yet cheweth not the cud, it is vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeise. 9 These yee shall eate of all that are in the waters: all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate: 10 And whatsoeuer hath not sinnes and scales, ye may not eat: it is vncleane vnto you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:13-19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - any unclean

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: And Haran begate Lot.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram tooke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, and they went foorth to goe into the land of Canaan: and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 14:9
With Chedorlaomer the King of Elam, and with Tidal King of nations, and Amraphel King of Shinar, and Arioch King of Ellasar; foure Kings with fiue.
Genesis 14:11
And they tooke all the goods of Sodome and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
Genesis 14:12
And they tooke Lot, Abrams brothers sonne, (who dwelt in Sodome) and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14:13
And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, for hee dwelt in the plaine of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodome went out to meete him, (after his returne from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the Kings that were with him) at the valley of Saueh, which is the Kings dale.
Genesis 14:19
And hee blessed him, and saide; Blessed bee Abram of the most high God, possessour of heauen and earth,
Numbers 16:26
And hee spake vnto the Congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sinnes.
Job 9:23
If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall 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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