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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Deuteronomy 14:20

All clean fowls, ye may eat.

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.
Literal Translation
You may eat of all clean birds.
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.
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 Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, - ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For, a holy people, thou art unto Yahweh thy God, - and, of thee, did Yahweh make choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These, are the beasts which ye may eat, - the ox, the young of sheep, and the young of goats; 5 the hart and the gazelle and the roebuck, - and the wild goat and the mountain goat, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, chewing the cud, among beasts, the same, shall ye eat. 7 Nevertheless these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, - the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are unto you. 8 And, the swine, because though he doth divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not the cud, unclean, he is unto you, - of their flesh, shall ye not eat, and their carcases, shall ye not touch. 9 These, may ye eat of all that that are in the waters, - whatsoever hath fins and scales, ye may eat; 10 and, whatsoever hath not, fins and scales, ye may not eat, - unclean, it is unto you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem, - And let Cantata he their servant:
Genesis 14:3
All these, joined together in the valley of the open fields, the same, is the Salt Sea.
Genesis 14:4
Twelve years, had they served Chedorlaomer, - but in the thirteenth year had they rebelled;
Genesis 14:5
and in the fourteenth year, had Chedorlaomer come in and the kings who were with him, so they smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, - and the Emim, in Shaveh-kiriathaim;
Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, - as far as El-paran, which is by the desert.
Genesis 14:9
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, - four kings against five.
Genesis 14:17
Then came forth the king of Sodom to meet him, after his return from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and the kings who were with him, - into the vale of Shaveh the same, was the vale of the king.
Genesis 14:19
So he blessed him and said, - Blessed be Abram of GOD Most High, possessor of the heavens and earth;
Genesis 24:27
and said, Blessed be Yahweh. God of my lord Abraham, who hath not withdrawn his lovingkindness and his faithfulness, from my lord, - I - being in the way, Yahweh led me unto the house of the brethren of my lord!
Genesis 28:22
And, this stone which I have put for a pillar, shall be the house of God, - And, of all which thou shalt give me, a tenth, will I tithe unto thee.

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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