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Updated Bible Version

Deuteronomy 14:11

Of all clean birds you may eat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Bird;   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 - Clean;   Food;   Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Clean and Unclean Animals;   Commandments, the 613;   Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;   Sacrifice;   Yiẓḥaḳ (Isaac);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You may eat every clean bird,
Hebrew Names Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
King James Version
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
Lexham English Bible
"All of the birds that are clean you may eat.
English Standard Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
New Century Version
You may eat any clean bird.
New English Translation
All ritually clean birds you may eat.
Amplified Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New American Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of all cleane birdes ye shall eate:
Legacy Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Contemporary English Version
You can eat any clean bird.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You may eat any clean bird;
Darby Translation
All clean birds shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You may eat any clean bird.
George Lamsa Translation
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
Good News Translation
"You may eat any clean bird.
Literal Translation
You shall eat of all clean birds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Eate of all cleane foules.
American Standard Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Bible in Basic English
All clean birds may be used for food.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of all cleane byrdes ye shall eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
King James Version (1611)
Of all cleane birds ye shall eate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat every clean bird.
English Revised Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Berean Standard Bible
You may eat any clean bird,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye alle clene briddis;
Young's Literal Translation
`Any clean bird ye do eat;
Webster's Bible Translation
[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.
World English Bible
Of all clean birds you may eat.
New King James Version
"All clean birds you may eat.
New Living Translation
"You may eat any bird that is ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New Revised Standard
You may eat any clean birds.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of every clean bird, ye may eat;
Douay-Rheims Bible
All birds that are clean you shall eat.
Revised Standard Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
THE MESSAGE
You 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You may eat any clean bird.

Contextual Overview

1 You are the sons of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are on the face of the earth. 3 You shall not eat any disgusting thing. 4 These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you eat. 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean to you. 8 And the swine, because he parts the hoof but chews not the cud, he is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; 10 and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 14:16
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to yourself.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
Deuteronomy 28:35
Yahweh will smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with an intense boil, whereof you can't be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of all clean birds ye shall eat. Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides p observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.

p Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

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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