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Literal Standard Version

Deuteronomy 14:17

and the pelican, and the Egyptian vulture, and the cormorant,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Birds;   Cormorants;   Pelicans;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Cormorant;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Pelicans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Carrion Vulture;   Clean, Cleanness;   Cormorant;   Pelican;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Cormorant;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Gier Eagle;   Leviticus;   Pelican;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Cormorant;   Gier Eagle,;   Pelican;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Owl;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Cormorant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gier-Eagle,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cormorant;   Gier Eagle;   Pelican;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination, Birds of;   Birds, Unclean;   Cormorant;   Fowl;   Gier-Eagle;   Pelican;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Cormorant;   Dietary Laws;   Pelican;   Pharisees;   Vulture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
eagle owls,
Hebrew Names Version
and the ka`at, and the rakham, and the shalakh,
King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
Lexham English Bible
and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
English Standard Version
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New Century Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
New English Translation
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Amplified Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:
Legacy Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Complete Jewish Bible
pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,
Darby Translation
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,
Easy-to-Read Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,
George Lamsa Translation
The desert cock, and the peacock,
Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the owl, and the cormorant,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Bytture, the Swanne, the Pellicane, the Pye,
American Standard Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Bible in Basic English
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Pellicane, the Swanne, nor the Cormorant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;
King James Version (1611)
And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
English Revised Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;
Berean Standard Bible
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a swan, and a siconye, and a dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous, a cormeraunt,
Young's Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
Update Bible Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
World English Bible
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
New King James Version
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,
New Living Translation
the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,
New Life Bible
the pelican, the vulture that eats dead flesh, the cormorant,
New Revised Standard
and the desert owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
Revised Standard Version
and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Contextual Overview

1"You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead; 2for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground. 3You do not eat any abomination; 4this [is] the beast which you eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats, 5deer, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and ibex, and antelope, and zemer; 6and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it. 7Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax, for they are bringing up the cud, but the hoof has not divided—they [are] unclean to you; 8and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not [bringing] up the cud—it [is] unclean to you; you do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass. 9This you eat of all which [are] in the waters: anything that has fins and scales you eat; 10and anything which does not have fins and scales you do not eat—it [is] unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gier: Rachamah, probably a species of vulture, still called in Arabic by the same name.

the cormorant: Shalach, probably the cataract, or plungeon, a sea fowl. Deuteronomy 14:17

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
And Jephthah comes into Mizpeh, to his house, and behold, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and except her alone, he has no son or daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
And it comes to pass, in their coming in, in David's returning from striking the Philistine, that the women come out from all the cities of Israel to sing—also the dancers—to meet Saul the king, with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments;
2 Samuel 18:18
And Absalom has taken, and sets up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king's valley, for he said, "I have no son to cause my name to be remembered"; and he calls the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called "The Monument of Absalom" to this day.
Proverbs 14:20
The poor is hated even of his neighbor, || And those loving the rich [are] many.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, || And the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham turning back from the striking of the kings, and blessed him,

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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