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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Webster's Bible Translation

Deuteronomy 14:18

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   Heron;   Stork;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Animal;   Bat;   Clean;   Food;   Heron;   Lapwing;   Stork;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bat;   Heron;   Lapwing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bats;   Birds;   Clean, Cleanness;   Heron;   Hoopoe;   Lapwing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bat;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Heron;   Hoopoe;   Leviticus;   Mole;   Stork;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Animals, Clean and Unclean;   Bat;   Birds, Clean and Unclean;   Heron ;   Lapwing,;   Stork,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Lapwing;   Vulture;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bat;   Heron;   Lapwing;   Stork;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination, Birds of;   Bat;   Birds, Unclean;   Cormorant;   Fowl;   Genesis;   Heron;   Hoopoe;   Lapwing;   Lizard;   Stork;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bat;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Dietary Laws;   Heron;   Lapwing;   Pharisees;   Solomon;   Stork;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
storks,
Hebrew Names Version
and the khasidah, and the anafah after its kind, and the dukifat, and the atalef.
King James Version
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Lexham English Bible
and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.
English Standard Version
the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
New Century Version
storks, any kind of heron, the hoopoes, or bats.
New English Translation
the stork, the her on after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,
Amplified Bible
the stork, and the heron of any variety, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
New American Standard Bible
the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.
Legacy Standard Bible
the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.
Complete Jewish Bible
storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.
Darby Translation
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
Easy-to-Read Version
storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the brood of these birds is unclean for you, you shall not eat them.
Literal Translation
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Storke, the Heron, the Iaye wt his kynde, the Lapwynge, ye Swalowe:
American Standard Version
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
Bible in Basic English
The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Storke, the Heron in his kinde, the Lapwing, the Backe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
King James Version (1611)
And the Storke, and the Heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the batte.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the red-bill and the bat.
English Revised Version
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
Berean Standard Bible
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a caladrie, alle in her kynde; also a lapwynke and a backe.
Young's Literal Translation
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;
Update Bible Version
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
World English Bible
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
New King James Version
the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.
New Living Translation
the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
New Life Bible
the stork, every kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
New Revised Standard
the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind, - and the mountain-cock, and the bat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.
Revised Standard Version
the stork, the heron, after their kinds; the hoopoe and the bat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.

Contextual Overview

1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou [art] a holy people to the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild-goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean to you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, [is] unclean to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. 9 These ye shall eat, of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the lapwing: Doocheephath, the upupa, or hoop, a beautiful but very unclean bird. Deuteronomy 14:18

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted my hand to the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Ruth 3:10
And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou didst not follow young men, whether poor or rich.
2 Samuel 2:5
And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that ye have shown this kindness to your lord, [even] to Saul, and have buried him.
Psalms 7:17
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms 50:14
Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:
Psalms 57:2
I will cry to God most high; to God that performeth [all things] for me.
Psalms 76:2
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
Micah 6:6
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?
Acts 7:48
Yet, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,

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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