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Deuteronomy 14:14

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Raven;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Birds;   Ravens;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Raven, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Food;   Raven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean, Cleanness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Leviticus;   Raven;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Raven;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ravels;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
every kind of raven,
Hebrew Names Version
and every orev after its kind,
King James Version
And every raven after his kind,
Lexham English Bible
and any kind of crow according to its kind,
English Standard Version
every raven of any kind;
New Century Version
any kind of raven,
New English Translation
every raven after its species,
Amplified Bible
and every raven of any variety,
New American Standard Bible
and every raven in its kind,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nor all kinde of rauens,
Legacy Standard Bible
and every raven in its kind,
Complete Jewish Bible
any kind of raven,
Darby Translation
and every raven after its kind;
Easy-to-Read Version
any kind of raven,
George Lamsa Translation
The owl, the pelican, the crow,
Literal Translation
and all ravens by their kinds;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& all Rauens in their kynde,
American Standard Version
and every raven after its kind,
Bible in Basic English
Every raven, and all birds of that sort;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all kinde of Rauens.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and every raven after its kinds;
King James Version (1611)
And euery rauen after his kinde,
English Revised Version
and every raven after its kind;
Berean Standard Bible
any kind of raven,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and al thing of rauenys kynde,
Young's Literal Translation
and every raven after its kind;
Update Bible Version
and every raven after its kind,
Webster's Bible Translation
And every raven after his kind,
World English Bible
and every raven after its kind,
New King James Version
every raven after its kind;
New Living Translation
ravens of all kinds,
New Life Bible
every kind of raven,
New Revised Standard
every raven of any kind;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and every raven after its kind;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all of the raven’s kind:
Revised Standard Version
every raven after its kind;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and every raven in its kind,

Contextual Overview

1You are children of God , your God, so don't mutilate your bodies or shave your heads in funeral rites for the dead. You only are a people holy to God , your God; God chose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished personal treasure. 3Don't eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep—any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud. But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven hoof—that makes them ritually unclean. And pigs: Don't eat pigs—they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass. 9This is what you may eat from the water: anything that has fins and scales. But if it doesn't have fins or scales, you may not eat it. It's ritually unclean. 11You 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. 19Winged insects are ritually unclean; don't eat them. But ritually clean winged creatures are permitted. 21 Because you are a people holy to God , your God, don't eat anything that you find dead. You can, though, give it to a foreigner in your neighborhood for a meal or sell it to a foreigner. Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
Genesis 14:1
Then this: Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim went off to war to fight Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.
Genesis 14:3
This second group of kings, the attacked, came together at the Valley of Siddim, that is, the Salt Sea. They had been under the thumb of Kedorlaomer for twelve years. In the thirteenth year, they revolted.
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him set out and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El Paran on the far edge of the desert. On their way back they stopped at En Mishpat, that is, Kadesh, and conquered the whole region of the Amalekites as well as that of the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Deuteronomy 34:1
Moses climbed from the Plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah facing Jericho. God showed him all the land from Gilead to Dan, all Naphtali, Ephraim, and Manasseh; all Judah reaching to the Mediterranean Sea; the Negev and the plains which encircle Jericho, City of Palms, as far south as Zoar.
Judges 20:1
Then all the People of Israel came out. The congregation met in the presence of God at Mizpah. They were all there, from Dan to Beersheba, as one person! The leaders of all the people, representing all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the gathering of God's people. There were four hundred divisions of sword-wielding infantry.
Proverbs 17:17
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.
1 John 2:18
Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they're all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That's how we know that we're close to the end.

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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