Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsKJV
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
ASV
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
YLT
`Any clean bird ye do eat;
DBT
All clean birds shall ye eat.
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
`Any clean bird ye do eat;
All clean birds shall ye eat.
Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.
Voices2
Of all clean birds ye shall eat. Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides (p) observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free. (p) Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.