These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
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These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
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These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
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These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 14:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 11:9-12 “ ‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses. Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But these are they of which they shall not…
But these are they of which they shall not eat,.... Jarchi observes, that the unclean birds are particularly mentioned, to teach that the clean sort are more than the unclean, and therefore the particulars of the fewest are given: these are all the same names as in Lev 11:13, excepting one, "the glede", Deu 14:13 which is a kind of kite or puttock; the Jerusalem Targum renders it the vulture, and the Targum of Jonathan the white "dayetha" or vulture; and Aristotle says (q) there are two sorts of vultures, the one small and whiter, the other larger and of many forms or colours; in Hebrew its name here is "raah", and is thought to be the same with "daah" in Lev 11:14 there translated the "vulture", which has its name there from flying, and here from seeing, for which it is remarkable; see Job 28:7 and the letters and are pretty much alike, and are sometimes changed, but there is another here, in Deu 14:13 mentioned, the "dayah", which is not mentioned in Lev 11:1, though some think it the same with the "ayah", rendered both here and there the "kite"; perhaps it means another sort of vulture, the black vulture, as the Targum of Jonathan.
(q) Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 3.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Nearly the same as in Lev_11:9.
9. Nearly the same as in Lev_11:9.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9, 10. On clean and unclean Fishes; Lev_11:9-12 substantially…
9, 10. On clean and unclean Fishes; Lev_11:9-12 substantially the same but more elaborate. On the numerous fishes of Palestine see Tristram, 162 ff. No species are here enumerated, nor in the rest of the O.T.; but, chiefly under foreign influence, specific names appear in the Talmud and Mishna. On their use as food see Kennedy in E.B. and the present writer’s Jerusalem, i. 317 f. The rule given here, that only those with fins (points) or scales are clean practically rules out eels1[133], lampreys and others, with of course all shellfish, some of which are wholesome fare. In inquiring for a reason for their exclusion, their likeness in shape to serpents must be kept in view; on the sacredness of fish (including eels) to certain Semitic deities see W. R. Smith, Rel. Sem. 157 ff. In Arabia the practice varies. Fish are eaten in Madaba and Kerak and on the coasts of the peninsula; but inland Arabs though eating lizards and locusts appear to abhor fish: ‘the most have never seen them and do not desire them’ (Musil, Ethn. Ber. 21). The true Bedawee despises the fish-eater (Georg Jacob, op. cit. 25). Cp. Baldensperger, PEFQ, 1905, 119.
[133] Eels have indeed numerous small scales.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9-10) See Lev_11:9-12.
(9-10) See Lev_11:9-12.
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Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel.
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Of these things that are in water you may eat
"You may eat these kinds of animals that live in the water"
fins
the thin, flat part which the fish uses to move through the water
scales
the small plates that cover the body of the fish
they are unclean to you
Something Yahweh says is unfit for his people to eat is spoken of as if it were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
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