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Leviticus 11:15

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any kind of raven,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

every raven after its kind,

KJV

Every raven after his kind;

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This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, &c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, &c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo (o), is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food; nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this; see Job 38:41. (o) Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.

This site's exposition

which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls

on Leviticus 11:13-23

For the fowls the chapter drops the test and gives a bare list, twenty names and no criterion, so a reader learns which birds are excluded without learning what excludes them. Several of the names are argued over in translation, and the older English renderings of cuckow, swan and lapwing are read now as the gull, the water hen and the hoopoe. The Hebrew word covers winged creatures rather than a modern class, which is why the bat closes the list at verse 19. Verses 21 and 22 hold the one permission in the chapter granted out of an abominable class, four kinds of locust with legs above their feet to leap withal, and Mark 1:6 has John the Baptist living on them.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Every raven - ערב oreb, a general term comprehending the raven, crow, rook, jackdaw, and magpie.

The words behind it

4 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.

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

Related verses

5 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

    Luke 12:24

    Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

    it leads to

    • Psalms 147:9

      He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Job 38:41

      Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Luke 12:7

      And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

    • Matthew 10:31

      So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

  • Through

    1 Kings 17:6

    The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:23–24

      Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

    • Matthew 6:31–33

      Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

  • Through

    1 Kings 17:4

    And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 17:9

      “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

  • Through

    Proverbs 30:17

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 21:18–21

      If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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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