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Douay-Rheims Bible

Deuteronomy 14:3

Eat not the things that are unclean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Cud;   Hoof;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Cleanness;   Meat;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clean and Unclean;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Clean;   Food;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Hunt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abomination ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You must not eat any detestable thing.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
King James Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Lexham English Bible
You shall not eat any detestable thing.
English Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abomination.
New Century Version
Do not eat anything the Lord hates.
New English Translation
You must not eat any forbidden thing.
Amplified Bible
"You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the LORD and forbidden by Him].
New American Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.
Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Contemporary English Version
Don't eat any disgusting animals.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You are not to eat anything disgusting.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't eat anything that the Lord hates.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Good News Translation
"Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean.
Literal Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt eate no abhominacion.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Bible in Basic English
No disgusting thing may be your food.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abhomination.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not eate any abominable thing.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye not tho thingis that ben vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
Update Bible Version
You shall not eat any disgusting thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
World English Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
New King James Version
Leviticus 11:1-47">[xr] "You shall not eat any detestable thing.
New Living Translation
"You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean.
New Life Bible
"Do not eat any hated thing.
New Revised Standard
You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Revised Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.
THE MESSAGE
Don'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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:43, Leviticus 20:25, Isaiah 65:4, Ezekiel 4:14, Acts 10:12-14, Romans 14:14, 1 Corinthians 10:28, Titus 1:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:3 - Every Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 11:2 - General Leviticus 11:10 - they shall be Isaiah 66:17 - behind one tree in the midst Ezekiel 8:10 - every Colossians 2:16 - in meat Hebrews 9:10 - in meats Hebrews 13:9 - not with

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Numbers 34:12
And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.
Deuteronomy 3:17
And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
Joshua 3:16
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
Psalms 107:34
(106-34) A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.

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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