Leviticus 11:10
8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
11 They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
12 Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
- KJV
- And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- WEB
- All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
- ASV
- And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination unto you,
- DARBY
- but all that have not fins and scales in seas and in rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of every living soul which is in the waters they shall be an abomination unto you.
- BLB
- And everything that does not have fin and scale in the seas and in the rivers, from every swarming thing of the waters, and from every living creature that [is] in the waters—they [are] an abomination to you⁺.
- ÅB
- Men det som ikke har finner og skjell av alt det som finnes i havene og i elvene, av alt det som vrimler i vannet, og av alt levende som er i vannet, det skal være en styggedom for dere.
- OTB
- Men alle skapninger i havet eller elvene som ikke har finner og skjell—blant alle de krypende tingene eller andre levende skapninger i vannet—er avskyelige for dere.
- B1930
- Men det som ikke har finner og skjell av alt det som finnes i havene og i elvene, av alt det som vrimler i vannet, og av alt levende som er i vannet, det skal være en vederstyggelighet for eder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
Read in contextLeviticus 7:18
If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
Read in contextProverbs 13:20
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 14:3
You must not eat any detestable thing.
Read in contextPsalms 139:21–22
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
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