Deuteronomy 14:3
1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
You must not eat any detestable thing.
4 These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
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
- You must not eat any detestable thing.
- KJV
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- WEB
- You shall not eat any abominable thing.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- BLB
- You shall not eat any detestable thing.
- ÅB
- Du skal ikke spise noe som er en styggedom.
- OTB
- Du skal ikke spise noe som regnes som avskyelig.
- B1930
- Du skal ikke ete noget som er en vederstyggelighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 4:14
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Read in contextLeviticus 20:25
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Read in contextRomans 14:14
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
Read in contextLeviticus 11:43
Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:28
But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—
Read in contextIsaiah 65:4
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
Read in contextActs 10:12–14
It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
Read in contextTitus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
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