Deuteronomy 14:4

Bible in Basic English

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These are the animals you may eat:

Hebrew Names Version
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

King James Version
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Lexham English Bible
These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goats,

English Standard Version
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

New Century Version
These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,

New English Translation
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Amplified Bible
"These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

New American Standard Bible
"These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Geneva Bible (1587)
These are the beastes, which ye shall eate, the beefe, the sheepe, and the goate,

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Contemporary English Version
You may eat the meat of cattle, sheep, and goats; wild sheep and goats; and gazelles, antelopes, and all kinds of deer.

Complete Jewish Bible
The animals which you may eat are: ox, sheep, goat,

Darby Translation
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

Easy-to-Read Version
You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats,

George Lamsa Translation
These are the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Good News Translation
You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats,

Literal Translation
These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the flocked sheep, and the flocked goat,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the beestes which ye shal eate: Oxen, shepe, Goates,

American Standard Version
These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the beastes which ye shall eate of, Oxen, Sheepe, and Goates:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

King James Version (1611)
These are the beasts which yee shall eate: the oxe, the sheepe, and the goat,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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English Revised Version
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Berean Standard Bible
These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is a beeste which ye schulen ete; an oxe, and a scheep, and a goet, an hert,

Young's Literal Translation
`this [is] the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

Update Bible Version
These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Webster's Bible Translation
These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

World English Bible
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

New King James Version
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

New Living Translation
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

New Life Bible
These are the animals you may eat: the bull, the sheep, the goat,

New Revised Standard
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, are the beasts which ye may eat, - the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats;

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

Revised Standard Version
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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
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Leviticus 11:2-8, 1 Kings 4:23

Cross-References

Ezekiel 17:15
But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These are the beasts which they shall eat,.... That is, which they might lawfully eat of, which were allowed for their food; for they were not obliged to eat of them if they did not choose it:

the ox, the sheep, and the goat; which were creatures used in sacrifice, and the only ones, yet nevertheless they might be used for food if chosen.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 14:4. These are the beasts which ye shall eat — On Leviticus 11:1-47, I have entered into considerable detail relative to the clean and unclean animals there mentioned. For the general subject, the reader is referred to the notes on that chapter; but as there are particulars mentioned here which Moses does not introduce in Leviticus, it will be necessary to consider them in this place.

The ox — שור shor: BOS, fifth order Pecora, of the genus MAMMALIA, species 41. This term includes all clean animals of the beeve kind; not only the ox properly so called, but also the bull, the cow, heifer, and calf.

The sheep — שה seh: OVIS, fifth order Pecora, of the genus MAMMALIA, species 40; including the ram, the wether, the ewe, and the lamb.

The goat — עז az: CAPRA, fifth order Pecora, of the genus MAMMALIA, species 39; including the he-goat, she-goat, and kid. The words in the text, שה כשבים seh chesabim, signify the lamb or young of sheep; and שה עזים seh izzim, the young or kid of goats: but this is a Hebrew idiom which signifies every creature of the genus, as בן אנוש ben enosh and בן אדם ben adam, son of man, signify any human being. See Psalms 144:3; Job 25:6.

The flesh of these animals is universally allowed to be the most wholesome and nutritive. They live on the very best vegetables; and having several stomachs, their food is well concocted, and the chyle formed from it the most pure because the best elaborated, as it is well refined before it enters into the blood. On ruminating or chewing the cud, Leviticus 11:3.