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Deuteronomy 14:14

every raven of any kind;

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,
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

1 You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. 3 You shall not eat any abhorrent thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. 6 Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof cleft in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 7 Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. 8 And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses. 9 Of all that live in water you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
Genesis 12:16
And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herders and my herders; for we are kindred.
Genesis 14:1
In the days of King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim,
Genesis 14:2
these kings made war with King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:3
All these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:11
So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way;
Genesis 14:12
they also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir."

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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