But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
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But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
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But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 14:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 11:13-19 “ ‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of…
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself,.... This law is repeated from Lev 17:15; see Gill on Lev 17:15,
thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; not to the proselyte of righteousness, for he might not eat of it any more than an Israelite, and if he did, he was obliged to wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and was unclean until the evening, as in Lev 17:15 but to a proselyte of the gate, who took upon him, as Jarchi observes, not to serve idols, one that has renounced idolatry, but has not embraced the Jewish religion; such an one might eat of things that died of themselves, or were not killed in a proper manner. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call him an uncircumcised stranger or proselyte, who had not submitted to circumcision, as the proselyte of righteousness did:
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or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; an idolater, one that was neither a proselyte of righteousness nor of the gate, an entire alien from the commonwealth of Israel; one that was occasionally in the land of Canaan, or was travelling in it or through it, to such an one it might be sold:
for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God; separated from all others, and devoted to his service, and therefore must live on clean, food and good meat, and not eat what others might:
thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk; this is the third time this law is mentioned; refer to the notes; see Gill on Exo 23:19; see Gill on Exo 34:26; the reason of which repetition, the Jewish writers say (s), is, that it is once said to forbid the eating it, a second time to forbid any use of it or profit by it, and a third time to forbid the boiling of it.
(s) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 2. sect. 9.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. These… ye shall not eat — The birds…
12. These… ye shall not eat — The birds prohibited here are as in Lev_11:13-23, except that the glede is added.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. eagle] nesher, Ar. nisr, the great vulture or…
12. eagle] nesher, Ar. nisr, the great vulture or griffon, gyps fulvus, identified by the baldness of its head and neck, Mic_1:16; from its frequency and its size ‘the most striking ornithological feature of Palestine’ (Tr. 95 f.); worshipped among Syrians and Arabs.
gier eagle] peres, the breaker, A.V. the ossifrage, the Lämmergeier or bearded vulture. It carries its prey to a great height and then drops it, repeating the operation till the prey is shattered (Tr. 94), LXX, γρύψ.
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ospray] ‘oznîyyah; LXX, ἁλιάετος (the sea-eagle or osprey). Tristram (98) takes it either as generic for all the eagles, or specific either for the golden eagle, ‘not uncommon in winter over the whole country’ but in summer only on Lebanon and Hermon, or (107) the osprey, which would be likely from its fish-eating habits to have a special name. Read eagle. In Arabia the small swart-brown eagle of the desert is called ‘agab (spelt ‘aḳab), ‘flying in the air they resemble sea-mews’ (Doughty, i. 328, ii. 218).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) These are they of which ye shall not…
(12) These are they of which ye shall not eat.—With one exception, the unclean birds are the same described in Lev_11:13-19.
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