Leviticus 11:12

Christian Standard Bible ®

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be abhorrent to you.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

King James Version
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Lexham English Bible
Any that does not have a fin and scales in the water—it is a detestable thing to you.

New Century Version
You must hate any animal in the water that does not have fins and scales.

New English Translation
Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

Amplified Bible
'Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

New American Standard Bible
'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Whatsoeuer hath not fins nor skales in the waters, that shalbe abomination vnto you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Whatever lacks fins and scales in the water is a detestable thing for you.

Darby Translation
Whatever in the waters hath no fins and scales, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is a sickening thought for you to touch anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.

English Standard Version
Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

George Lamsa Translation
Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is unclean to you.

Good News Translation
You must not eat anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.

Literal Translation
Any one that does not have fins and scales in the waters, it shall be an unclean thing to you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For all that haue not fynnes & scales in the waters, shall ye abhorre.

American Standard Version
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.

Bible in Basic English
Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let all that haue no finnes nor skales in the waters, be abhominable vnto you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.

King James Version (1611)
Whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales in the waters, that shalbe an abomination vnto you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters, these are an abomination to you.

English Revised Version
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.

Berean Standard Bible
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle thingis in watris that han not fynnes and scalis, schulen be pollutid,

Young's Literal Translation
`Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it [is] to you.

Update Bible Version
Whatever doesn't have fins and scales in the waters, that is detestable to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whatever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination to you.

World English Bible
Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

New King James Version
Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales--that shall be an abomination to you.

New Living Translation
Any marine animal that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

New Life Bible
Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales will be hated by you.

New Revised Standard
Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whatsoever hath not fins and scales in the waters, an abomination, it is unto you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

Revised Standard Version
Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination to you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.

Contextual Overview

⁹“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams. ¹⁰But these are to be abhorrent to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water. ¹¹They are to remain abhorrent to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must abhor their carcasses. ¹²Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be abhorrent to you.¹³“You are to abhor these birds. They must not be eaten because they are abhorrent: ¹⁴kites, ¹⁵every kind of raven, ¹⁶ostriches, ¹⁷little owls, cormorants, ¹⁸barn owls, eagle owls,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:6 - and the frogs Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead

Cross-References

Luke 3:36
son of Cainan, son of Arphaxad,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters,.... Which is repeated that they might take particular notice of this law, and be careful to observe it, this being the only sign given:

that [shall be] an abomination unto you; the Targum of Jonathan says, that not only the flesh of such fish, but the broth, and pickles made of them, were to be an abomination; which contradicts what Pliny t relates, that the Jews made a pickle of fishes that lacked scales; so Grotius understands him: this law of the Jews is taken notice of by Porphyry u, who says, it is forbidden all the Jews to eat horse flesh, or fishes that lack scales, or any animal that has but one hoof: and Pliny w, from an ancient author, Cassius Hemina, makes mention of a law of Numa, forbidding the use of fish that had not scales, in feasts made for the gods.

t Nat. Hist. l. 31. c. 8. u De Abstinentia, l. 4. c. 14. w Nat. Hist. l. 32. c. 2.