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Deuteronomy 14:7

in Deuteronomy 14

But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you.

KJV

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

This verse in Deuteronomy 14

Commentary

1 note 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 words behind it

26 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.

  • אַ֣ךְnevertheless

    ʾakhH389161 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • זֶ֞הthis

    zehH20881180 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • תֹֽאכְלוּ֙you will eat

    tokheluH398810 times

  • מִמַּֽעֲלֵ֣יany of [those which] bring up

    mimaaleiH5927890 times

  • הַגֵּרָ֔ה<of> the cud

    hagerahH162511 times

  • וּמִמַּפְרִיסֵ֥יand [any] of those dividing

    umimafriseiH653614 times

  • הַפַּרְסָ֖ה<of> the hoof

    haparsahH654121 times

  • הַשְּׁסוּעָ֑ה<the> cloven

    hashesuahH8156

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַ֠גָּמָלthe camel

    hagamolH1581

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • הָאַרְנֶ֨בֶתthe hare

    haarnevetH768

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • הַשָּׁפָ֜ןthe rock badger

    hashafanH8227

  • כִּֽי־that

    ki-H35884482 times

  • מַעֲלֵ֧ה[is] bringing up

    maalehH5927890 times

  • גֵרָ֣ה<of> cud

    gerahH162511 times

  • הֵ֗מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • וּפַרְסָה֙and a hoof

    ufarsahH654121 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • הִפְרִ֔יסוּthey divide

    hifrisuH653614 times

  • טְמֵאִ֥ים[are] unclean

    temeimH293188 times

  • הֵ֖םthey

    hemH1992553 times

  • לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you

    lakhem

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

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 Timothy 3:5

    having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 29:13

      Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…

    • Titus 1:16

      They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

    • Matthew 23:27–28

      Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

    • 1 Timothy 5:8

      If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

    • Romans 2:20–24

      an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

  • Through

    Matthew 7:26

    But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 8:9

      The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

    • Luke 6:49

      But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately…

    • James 2:20

      O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.