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Clean and Unclean Animals

Deuteronomy 14:3

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
You do not eat any abomination;
YLT
'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
DBY
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
DRC
Eat not the things that are unclean.
GNV
Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.
JPS
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
LXXE
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל כָּל־תּוֹעֵבָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Οὐ φάγεσθε πᾶν βδέλυγμα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.”
  • Leviticus 20:25You 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.
  • Leviticus 11:43Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
  • Romans 14:14I 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.
  • Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
  • Isaiah 65:4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:28But 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—
  • Acts 10:12–14It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air. Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” “No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything…

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