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Deuteronomy 14:10

But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Fish;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fishes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clean and Unclean;   Fish, Fisher;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fish;   Food;   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:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dietary Laws;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.
Hebrew Names Version
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Lexham English Bible
But anything that does not have fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you.
English Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Century Version
but do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New English Translation
but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
Amplified Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales, ye shall not eate: it shall be vncleane vnto you.
Legacy Standard Bible
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Contemporary English Version
and if they do not have fins and scales, you must not eat them. Treat them as unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible
But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.
Darby Translation
but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.
Easy-to-Read Version
But don't eat anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales. It is not a clean food for you.
George Lamsa Translation
And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Good News Translation
but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.
Literal Translation
And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But what so euer hath no fynnes ner scales, that shal ye not eate, for it is vncleane vnto you.
American Standard Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whatsoeuer hath not finnes and scales, of that ye may not eate, but it is vncleane vnto you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
King James Version (1611)
And whatsoeuer hath not sinnes and scales, ye may not eat: it is vncleane vnto you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.
English Revised Version
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Berean Standard Bible
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ete ye not tho thingis that ben with out fynnes and scalis, for tho ben vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it [is] to you.
Update Bible Version
and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.
World English Bible
and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
New King James Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New Living Translation
You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
New Life Bible
But do not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. It is unclean for you.
New Revised Standard
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, - unclean, it is unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
Revised Standard Version
And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Contextual Overview

1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead; 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. 3 No disgusting thing may be your food. 4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; 5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep. 6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food. 7 But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two. 8 And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you. 9 And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates. 10 But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - any unclean Leviticus 11:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Genesis 19:30
Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.
Joshua 8:24
Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.
Psalms 83:10
Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
Isaiah 24:18
And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

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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