Deuteronomy 14:16

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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

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

King James Version
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

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

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

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

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you."

1 Samuel 30:8
Then David prayed to God , "Shall I go after these raiders? Can I catch them?" The answer came, "Go after them! Yes, you'll catch them! Yes, you'll make the rescue!"

Isaiah 41:2
"Who got things rolling here, got this champion from the east on the move? Who recruited him for this job, then rounded up and corralled the nations so he could run roughshod over kings? He's off and running, pulverizing nations into dust, leaving only stubble and chaff in his wake. He chases them and comes through unscathed, his feet scarcely touching the path.

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.