Deuteronomy 14:16

King James Version

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
little owls, long-eared owls,

Hebrew Names Version
the kos, and the yanshuf, and the tanshemet,

Lexham English Bible
the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl,

English Standard Version
the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl

New Century Version
little owls, great owls, white owls,

New English Translation
the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,

Amplified Bible
the little owl, the great owl, the long-eared owl,

New American Standard Bible
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither the litle owle, nor the great owle, nor the redshanke,

Legacy Standard Bible
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

Complete Jewish Bible
little owls, great owls, horned owls,

Darby Translation
the owl, and the ibis and the swan,

Easy-to-Read Version
little owls, great owls, white owls,

George Lamsa Translation
The stork, the hoopoe after its kind,

Literal Translation
the little owl, and the eared owl, and the barn owl,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the litle Oule, the greate Oule, ye Backe,

American Standard Version
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

Bible in Basic English
The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The litle Owle, the great Owle, nor the Redshanke.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

King James Version (1611)
The little owle, and the great owle, and the swanne,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,

English Revised Version
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

Berean Standard Bible
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and an hauk bi his kynde, a fawcun,

Young's Literal Translation
the [little] owl, and the [great] owl, and the swan,

Update Bible Version
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

Webster's Bible Translation
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

World English Bible
the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

New King James Version
the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

New Living Translation
the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl,

New Life Bible
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

New Revised Standard
the little owl and the great owl, the water hen

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the pelican and the bittern, and the swan;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

Revised Standard Version
the little owl and the great owl, the water hen

New American Standard Bible (1995)
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

Contextual Overview

¹ Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ² For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. ³ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. ⁴ These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, ⁵ The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. ⁶ And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. ⁷ Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. ⁸ And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. ⁹ These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: ¹⁰ And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the swan: Tinshemeth, probably, as Michaelis supposes, the goose. Deuteronomy 14:16

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 14:11
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

Genesis 14:12
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14:18
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

1 Samuel 30:8
And David enquired at the Lord , saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

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.