Deuteronomy 14:3-21
Lexham English Bible
3 You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goats,[a] 5 deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. 6 And any animal having a split hoof[b] and so a dividing of the hoof into two parts[c] and that chews the cud[d] among the animals[e]—that animal you may eat. 7 Only these you may not eat from those chewing the cud[f] and from those having a division of the hoof:[g] the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud,[h] but they do not divide the hoof; they are therefore unclean for you. 8 And also the pig because it has a division of the hoof[i] but does not chew the cud;[j] it is unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.[k]
9 “This is what you shall eat from all that is in the water: everything[l] that has fins and scales[m] you may eat. 10 But anything that does not have[n] fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you.
11 “All of the birds that are clean you may eat. 12 Now these are the ones you shall not eat any of them:[o] the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,[p] 13 and the red kite[q] and the black kite or any kind of falcon,[r] 14 and any kind of crow[s] according to its kind, 15 and the ostrich[t] and the short-eared owl and the seagull[u] and the hawk according to its kind, 16 the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl,[v] 17 and the desert owl[w] and the carrion vulture[x] and the cormorant,[y] 18 and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. 19 And also all of the winged insects;[z] they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them. 20 You may eat any clean bird.
21 “You shall not eat any carcass;[aa] you may give it to the alien who is in your towns,[ab] and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
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- Deuteronomy 14:4 Literally “small livestock of the sheep and a small livestock of the goats”
- Deuteronomy 14:6 Or “divides the hoof”
- Deuteronomy 14:6 Literally “a dividing cleft creating two hoofs”
- Deuteronomy 14:6 Literally “and that brings up the cud”
- Deuteronomy 14:6 Hebrew “animal”
- Deuteronomy 14:7 Literally “bringing up the cud”
- Deuteronomy 14:7 Literally “those having a division of the hoof divided”
- Deuteronomy 14:7 Literally “they bringing up of the cud”
- Deuteronomy 14:8 Literally “because a division of the hoof”
- Deuteronomy 14:8 Literally “but not a chewing cud”
- Deuteronomy 14:8 Literally “dead body”
- Deuteronomy 14:9 Literally “all of that”
- Deuteronomy 14:9 Literally “for it is fins and scales,” showing possession of these features
- Deuteronomy 14:10 Literally “all of that there is not for it,” showing lack of possession of these features
- Deuteronomy 14:12 Literally “from them”
- Deuteronomy 14:12 This list of birds is difficult to translate since the terms are not definitely known: e.g., some translations render the last bird as a “buzzard” (NASV); other translations give different names for all three: griffon vulture, black vulture, bearded vulture (NEB)
- Deuteronomy 14:13 Various options are available: large bird, kite, red kite, glede, buzzard
- Deuteronomy 14:13 Literally “or the falcon according to its kind”; other options for falcon: bird, falcon, kite (others as carrion-bird), vulture, crow or raven, buzzard
- Deuteronomy 14:14 Or others translate as “raven”
- Deuteronomy 14:15 Literally “daughter of the ostrich”; others “desert owl”
- Deuteronomy 14:15 Or “long-eared owl”
- Deuteronomy 14:16 Or “white owl”
- Deuteronomy 14:17 Or “large bird” or “horned-owl”
- Deuteronomy 14:17 Or “large bird”
- Deuteronomy 14:17 Or “large bird,” or “fisher-owl”
- Deuteronomy 14:19 Literally “the swarmers of the flyers” or “all the swarms of things that fly”
- Deuteronomy 14:21 Or “corpse”
- Deuteronomy 14:21 Literally “gates”
Deuteronomy 14:3-21
New Living Translation
3 “You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean. 4 These are the animals[a] you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 “You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud, 7 but if the animal doesn’t have both, it may not be eaten. So you may not eat the camel, the hare, or the hyrax.[b] They chew the cud but do not have split hooves, so they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 And you may not eat the pig. It has split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is ceremonially unclean for you. You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses.
9 “Of all the marine animals, you may eat whatever has both fins and scales. 10 You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. They are ceremonially unclean for you.
11 “You may eat any bird that is ceremonially clean. 12 These are the birds you may not eat: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13 the kite, the falcon, buzzards of all kinds, 14 ravens of all kinds, 15 the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the seagull, hawks of all kinds, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl, 17 the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 “All winged insects that walk along the ground are ceremonially unclean for you and may not be eaten. 20 But you may eat any winged bird or insect that is ceremonially clean.
21 “You must not eat anything that has died a natural death. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, or you may sell it to a stranger. But do not eat it yourselves, for you are set apart as holy to the Lord your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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