Deuteronomy 14:17

Bible in Basic English

And the pelican and the 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,

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,

Revised Standard Version
and the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

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

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

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 back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

1 Samuel 18:6
Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.

2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

Proverbs 14:20
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

Proverbs 19:4
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

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.