Deuteronomy 14:17

Revised Standard Version

and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
eagle owls,

Hebrew Names Version
and the ka`at, and the rakham, and the shalakh,

King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

Lexham English Bible
and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

English Standard Version
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

New Century Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

New English Translation
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Amplified Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

New American Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:

Legacy Standard Bible
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Complete Jewish Bible
pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

Darby Translation
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,

Easy-to-Read Version
desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

George Lamsa Translation
The desert cock, and the peacock,

Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the owl, and the cormorant,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Bytture, the Swanne, the Pellicane, the Pye,

American Standard Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

Bible in Basic English
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Pellicane, the Swanne, nor the Cormorant.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

King James Version (1611)
And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

English Revised Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;

Berean Standard Bible
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a swan, and a siconye, and a dippere, a pursirioun, and a reremous, a cormeraunt,

Young's Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

Update Bible Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

World English Bible
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

New King James Version
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

New Living Translation
the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,

New Life Bible
the pelican, the vulture that eats dead flesh, the cormorant,

New Revised Standard
and the desert owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the vomiting pelican and the little vulture and the gannet;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Contextual Overview

¹ "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. ² For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. ³ "You shall not eat any abominable thing. ⁴ These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵ the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. ⁶ Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. ⁷ Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. ⁸ And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. ⁹ "Of all that are in the waters 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

gier: Rachamah, probably a species of vulture, still called in Arabic by the same name.

the cormorant: Shalach, probably the cataract, or plungeon, a sea fowl. Deuteronomy 14:17

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

1 Samuel 18:6
As they were coming home, when David returned from slaying the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with timbrels, with songs of joy, and with instruments of music.

2 Samuel 18:18
Now Ab'salom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance"; he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Ab'salom's monument to this day.

Proverbs 14:20
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.

Proverbs 19:4
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchiz'edek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

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.