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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 14:20

You may eat of all clean birds.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Birds;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Birds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Clean and Unclean;   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:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Dietary Laws;   Nebelah;   Pharisees;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you may eat every clean flying creature.
Hebrew Names Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
King James Version
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Lexham English Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
English Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New Century Version
Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.
New English Translation
You may eat any clean bird.
Amplified Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
New American Standard Bible
"You may eat any clean bird.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
Legacy Standard Bible
You may eat any clean bird.
Contemporary English Version
However, you are allowed to eat certain kinds of winged insects.
Complete Jewish Bible
but all clean flying creatures you may eat.
Darby Translation
All clean fowls shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
But you may eat any clean bird.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not eat of anything that is unclean, but you shall give it to the stranger who is in your towns, that he may eat it.
Good News Translation
You may eat any clean insect.
American Standard Version
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Bible in Basic English
But all clean birds you may take.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of all clean winged things ye may eat.
King James Version (1611)
But of all cleane foules ye may eat.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat every clean bird.
English Revised Version
Of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Berean Standard Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ete ye al thing that is cleene; sotheli what euer thing is deed bi it silf, ete ye not therof.
Young's Literal Translation
any clean fowl ye do eat.
Update Bible Version
Of all clean birds you may eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
World English Bible
Of all clean birds you may eat.
New King James Version
"You may eat all clean birds.
New Living Translation
But you may eat any winged bird or insect that is ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
But you may eat any clean bird.
New Revised Standard
You may eat any clean winged creature.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All clean fowls, ye may eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All that is clean, you shall eat.
Revised Standard Version
All clean winged things you may eat.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You may eat any clean bird.

Contextual Overview

1 You are sons to Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people to Him, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the flocked sheep, and the flocked goat, 5 the hart and gazelle, and roe deer, and wild goat, and antelope, and oryx, and moufflon. 6 And you may eat every animal that divides the hoof, and divides two hoofs wholly, and chews the cud among the animals. 7 But you shall not eat of those that only chew the cud, or those only dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger; for they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof. They shall be unclean to you. 8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead body. 9 These you shall eat of all in the waters: you shall eat all that have fins and scales. 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat. It shall be unclean to you.

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Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.
Genesis 14:3
All these were joined together to the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.
Genesis 14:4
They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in the hills of Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of the nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him, to the valley of Shaveh, it being the valley of the king.
Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;
Genesis 24:27
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my master, I being in the way, Jehovah guided me to the house of the brother of my master.
Genesis 28:22
and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is

"every clean locust ye may eat;''

see Leviticus 11:22.

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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