Deuteronomy 14:3

Bible in Basic English

No disgusting thing may be your food.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You must not eat any detestable thing.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

King James Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Lexham English Bible
You shall not eat any detestable thing.

English Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abomination.

New Century Version
Do not eat anything the Lord hates.

New English Translation
You must not eat any forbidden thing.

Amplified Bible
"You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the LORD and forbidden by Him].

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.

Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Contemporary English Version
Don't eat any disgusting animals.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You are not to eat anything disgusting.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't eat anything that the Lord hates.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Good News Translation
"Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean.

Literal Translation
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt eate no abhominacion.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt eate no maner of abhomination.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not eate any abominable thing.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye not tho thingis that ben vncleene.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

Update Bible Version
You shall not eat any disgusting thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

World English Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

New King James Version
Leviticus 11:1-47">[xr] "You shall not eat any detestable thing.

New Living Translation
"You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean.

New Life Bible
"Do not eat any hated thing.

New Revised Standard
You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Eat not the things that are unclean.

Revised Standard Version
"You shall not eat any abominable thing.

THE MESSAGE
Don't eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep—any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud. But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven hoof—that makes them ritually unclean. And pigs: Don't eat pigs—they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.

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

Leviticus 11:43, Leviticus 20:25, Isaiah 65:4, Ezekiel 4:14, Acts 10:12-14, Romans 14:14, 1 Corinthians 10:28, Titus 1:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:3 - Every Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 11:2 - General Leviticus 11:10 - they shall be Isaiah 66:17 - behind one tree in the midst Ezekiel 8:10 - every Colossians 2:16 - in meat Hebrews 9:10 - in meats Hebrews 13:9 - not with

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Numbers 34:12
And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

Deuteronomy 3:17
As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Joshua 3:16
Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.

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.