Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsKJV
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
ASV
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
YLT
any clean fowl ye do eat.
DBT
All clean fowls shall ye eat.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Of all clean birds ye may eat.
any clean fowl ye do eat.
All clean fowls 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
But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is"every clean locust ye may eat;''see Lev 11:22.
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.