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Deuteronomy 14:6

in Deuteronomy 14

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

KJV

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 14

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

These are the beasts which ye shall eat

on Deuteronomy 14:4-8

Leviticus 11:2-8 gave the two tests and named only the camel, the coney, the hare and the swine among the animals that fail them. Deuteronomy names ten clean beasts outright and seven of them are wild game, which fits the permission at 12:15 to kill and eat the hart and the roebuck at home. Verse 6 states the hoof test in a fuller form, cleaveth the cleft into two claws, where Leviticus 11:3 says clovenfooted and stops. The camel, the hare and the coney are all said to chew the cud, and readers have differed over the words, some holding that they report what a herdsman watching the animal sees rather than describing its stomach.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And every beast that parted the hoof,....

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • בְּהֵמָ֞הanimal

    behemahH929 →190 times

  • מַפְרֶ֣סֶת[which] divides

    mafresetH6536 →14 times

  • פַּרְסָ֗ה<of> a hoof

    parsahH6541 →21 times

  • וְשֹׁסַ֤עַתand [which] cleaves

    veshosaatH8156 →

  • שֶׁ֙סַע֙<of> a cleft of

    shesa'H8157 →

  • שְׁתֵּ֣יtwo

    sheteiH8147 →768 times

  • פְרָס֔וֹתhooves

    ferasotH6541 →21 times

  • מַעֲלַ֥ת[which] brings up

    maalatH5927 →890 times

  • גֵּרָ֖ה<of> cud

    gerahH1625 →11 times

  • בַּבְּהֵמָ֑הamong the animal[s]

    babehemahH929 →190 times

  • אֹתָ֖הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃you will eat

    tokheluH398 →810 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 6:17

    “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 52:11

      Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

    • Revelation 18:4

      Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

    • 2 Corinthians 7:1

      Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

    • Psalms 1:1–3

      Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

    • Numbers 16:26

      And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

  • Through

    Proverbs 18:1

    He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 5:15–17

      Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

    • Proverbs 2:1–6

      My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

    • Proverbs 20:3

      It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 14 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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