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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 14:10

And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Fish;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fishes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clean and Unclean;   Fish, Fisher;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fish;   Food;   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:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.
Hebrew Names Version
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Lexham English Bible
But anything that does not have fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you.
English Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Century Version
but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New English Translation
but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
Amplified Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.
Legacy Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Contemporary English Version
and if they do not have fins and scales, you must not eat them. Treat them as unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible
But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.
Darby Translation
but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.
Easy-to-Read Version
But don't eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.
George Lamsa Translation
And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Good News Translation
but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But what so euer hath no fynnes ner scales, that shal ye not eate, for it is vncleane vnto you.
American Standard Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Bible in Basic English
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whatsoeuer hath not finnes and scales, of that ye may not eate, but it is vncleane vnto you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
King James Version (1611)
And whatsoeuer hath not sinnes and scales, ye may not eat: it is vncleane vnto you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
English Revised Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Berean Standard Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ete ye not tho thingis that ben with out fynnes and scalis, for tho ben vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.
Update Bible Version
and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.
World English Bible
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
New King James Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Living Translation
You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
New Life Bible
But do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New Revised Standard
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, - unclean, it is unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
Revised Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Contextual Overview

1 You are sons to Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people to Him, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the flocked sheep, and the flocked goat, 5 the hart and gazelle, and roe deer, and wild goat, and antelope, and oryx, and moufflon. 6 And you may eat every animal that divides the hoof, and divides two hoofs wholly, and chews the cud among the animals. 7 But you shall not eat of those that only chew the cud, or those only dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger; for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof. They shall be unclean to you. 8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead body. 9 These you shall eat of all in the waters: you shall eat all that have fins and scales. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - any unclean Leviticus 11:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And each one said to his neighbor, Come, let us make brick, and burning burn them. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Genesis 19:17
And it happened as they led them outside, he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mount. And his two daughters were with him. For he feared to live in Zoar. And he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Joshua 8:24
And it happened, when Israel had made an end to slaying all the ones living in Ai in the field, even in the wilderness where they pursued them (and they, all of them, fell by the mouth of the sword until they were consumed) all Israel turned back to Ai, and struck it with the mouth of the sword.
Psalms 83:10
At Endor they were destroyed; they became dung for the ground.
Isaiah 24:18
And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are opened, and the earth's foundations quake.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who flees from the dread shall fall into the pit. And he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring it on Moab, the year of their punishment, declares Jehovah.

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.


 
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