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Douay-Rheims Bible

Deuteronomy 14:20

All that is clean, you shall eat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   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 - Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Dietary Laws;   Nebelah;   Pharisees;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you may eat every clean flying creature.
Hebrew Names Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
King James Version
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Lexham English Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
English Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New Century Version
Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.
New English Translation
You may eat any clean bird.
Amplified Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New American Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
Legacy Standard Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
Contemporary English Version
However, you are allowed to eat certain kinds of winged insects.
Complete Jewish Bible
but all clean flying creatures you may eat.
Darby Translation
All clean fowls shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
But you may eat any clean bird.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat of anything that is unclean, but you shall give it to the stranger who is in your towns, that he may eat it.
Good News Translation
You may eat any clean insect.
Literal Translation
You may eat of all clean birds.
American Standard Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Bible in Basic English
But all clean birds you may take.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of all clean winged things ye may eat.
King James Version (1611)
But of all cleane foules ye may eat.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat every clean bird.
English Revised Version
Of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Berean Standard Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye al thing that is cleene; sotheli what euer thing is deed bi it silf, ete ye not therof.
Young's Literal Translation
any clean fowl ye do eat.
Update Bible Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
World English Bible
Of all clean birds you may eat.
New King James Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
New Living Translation
But you may eat any winged bird or insect that is ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
New Revised Standard
You may eat any clean winged creature.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All clean fowls, ye may eat.
Revised Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You may eat any clean bird.

Contextual Overview

1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead; 2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth. 3 Eat not the things that are unclean. 4 These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus. 6 Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat. 7 But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you. 8 The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. 9 These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat. 10 Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
Genesis 14:3
All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.
Genesis 14:4
For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him.
Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.
Genesis 14:6
And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.
Genesis 14:9
To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king’s vale.
Genesis 14:19
Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.
Genesis 24:27
Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master’s brother.
Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is

"every clean locust ye may eat;''

see Leviticus 11:22.

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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