Deuteronomy 14 · Verse 20

Deuteronomy 14:20

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:20, King James Version

Deuteronomy 14:20 in other translations

BSBBut you may eat any clean bird.
WEBOf all clean birds you may eat.
ASVOf all clean birds ye may eat.
YLTany clean fowl ye do eat.
DARBYAll clean fowls shall ye eat.
BBEBut all clean birds you may take.
WebsterBut of all clean fowls ye may eat.

What does Deuteronomy 14:20 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 14:11-20

De 14:11-20. Of Birds. 11-20. Of all clean birds ye shall eat--(See on Le 11:21).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; "The Lord hath chosen thee." He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his…

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Deuteronomy 14:20 in the original Hebrew

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כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
ע֥וֹףofinsectH5775
טָה֖וֹרta.HorcleanH2889
תֹּאכֵֽלוּ\׃to.Khe.luyou will eatH398

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Deuteronomy 14:19

    And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

  • Deuteronomy 14:20

    But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

  • Deuteronomy 14:21

    Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

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Deuteronomy 14:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Toda ave limpia comeréis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous mangerez tout oiseau pur.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Alles reine Gevögel sollt ihr essen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Omne quod mundum est, comedite.