Deuteronomy 14 · Verse 3

Deuteronomy 14:3

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy 14:3, King James Version

Deuteronomy 14:3 in other translations

BSBYou must not eat any detestable thing.
WEBYou shall not eat any abominable thing.
ASVThou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
YLT‘Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;
DARBYThou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
BBENo disgusting thing may be your food.
WebsterThou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

What does Deuteronomy 14:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

De 14:3-21. What May Be Eaten, and What Not.

3. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing--that is, anything forbidden as unclean (see on Le 11:1).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

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 14:3 in the original Hebrew

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לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תֹאכַ֖לto.Khalyou will eatH398
כָּל\־kol-anyH3605
תּוֹעֵבָֽה\׃to.'e.Vahdisgusting thingH8441

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 14:3

  • Ezekiel 4:14

    Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

  • Leviticus 20:25

    Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

  • Romans 14:14

    I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • Leviticus 11:43

    Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:28

    But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:

  • Isaiah 65:4

    Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

  • Acts 10:12-14

    Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

  • Titus 1:15

    Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 11:43; 20:25; Isa 65:4; Eze 4:14; Ac 10:12-14; Ro 14:14
1Co 10:28; Tit 1:15

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 14:2

    For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

  • Deuteronomy 14:3

    Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deuteronomy 14:4

    These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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Deuteronomy 14:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Nada abominable comerás.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu ne mangeras aucune chose abominable.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du sollst keinen Greuel essen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ne comedatis quæ immunda sunt.