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Deuteronomy 14:19

All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And all winged swarming things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 14:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 11:20-23 “ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you. Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth. Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper. But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.
  • Philippians 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy…

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed,.... This was a different tithe from that which was made and given to the Levites, and out of which a tithe was taken and given to the priests, and which they only ate of; but this, as appears by the following verse, was what the owners themselves ate of, and so the tithing was left to be made by them themselves, and which they were to be sure to make, and to make it truly and faithfully:

that the field bringeth forth year by year; being ploughed and sowed yearly, the produce of it was to be tithed yearly; the Jewish writers (t) observe on this, that it must be what the earth produces, and is fit for food: and it must be thy seed, which is especially thine, and is not common, but has an owner, and this excludes mushrooms, &c. which thou sowest not, and therefore cannot be called thy seed.

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(t) Ib. in Misn. Maaserot, c. 1. sect. 1.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Wings. Hebrew, "every reptile that flieth," such as bees.…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. all winged creeping things are unclean] Lit. swarming…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:19-20 winged insects: Cp. Lev 11:20-23.

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