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Myles Coverdale Bible

Deuteronomy 14:11

Eate of all cleane foules.

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.
Good News Translation
"You may eat any clean bird.
Literal Translation
You shall eat of all clean birds.
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 Ye are the children of the LORDE youre God, Cut not youre selues therfore, & make you no baldnesse betwene youre eyes ouer eny deed. 2 For thou art an holy people vnto the LORDE thy God. And the LORDE hath chosen the to be his awne peculier people, from amoge all the nacions that are vpon the earth. 3 Thou shalt eate no abhominacion. 4 These are the beestes which ye shal eate: Oxen, shepe, Goates, 5 Hert, Roo, Bugle, wylde goate, Unicorne, Origen, and Camelion. 6 And euery beest that deuydeth his clawe, & cheweth cudd, shal ye eate. 7 Neuertheles these shal ye not eate of them that chewe cudd, and deuyde not the hoffe in to two clawes: The Camell, the hayre, & the conye, for though they chewe cudd, yet deuyde they not the hoffe, therfore shal they be vncleane vnto you. 8 The swyne, though he deuyde the hoffe, yet cheweth he not cudd, he shall be vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of the flesh of the, and their deed carcases shal ye not touche. 9 This is it that ye shall eate of all that is in the waters: All that hath fynnes and scales, shall ye eate. 10 But what so euer hath no fynnes ner scales, that shal ye not eate, for it is vncleane vnto you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan.
Genesis 14:16
and brought agayne all the goodes, and also his brother Lot, and his goodes, ye wemen also and the people.
Genesis 14:21
Then sayde the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: Geue me the soules, and take ye goodes vnto thy self.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate therof. Thine asse shalbe violently taken awaye (euen before yi face) and shal not be restored ye againe. Thy shepe shalbe geuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal helpe the.
Deuteronomy 28:35
The LORDE shal smyte the with a myscheuous botch in ye knees & legges, so that thou canst not be healed, euen from the sole of thy fote vnto the crowne of thy heade.
Deuteronomy 28:51
And they shal eate vp ye frute of thy catell, & the frute of thy londe, tyll they haue destroyed the, and shall leaue the nothinge in corne, wyne, oyle, in the frute of ye oxen and shepe, vntyll they haue broughte the to naughte:

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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