Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her…

Lev 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

Ver. 19. And the stork.] Which builds high, {Psa 104:17} but feeds low on fishes, frogs, and snakes; and so might be the rather rejected as unfit for food.

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And the lapwing.] Which is worthily made a hieroglyphic of infelicity; because it hath as a coronet upon the head, and yet feeds upon the worst of excrements. It is pity that the saints, that are brought up in scarlet, should embrace the dunghill; {Lam 4:5} that any one that is washed in Christ’s blood, should bedabble his robe in the stinking puddle of the world.

And the bat.] Cast away either thy wings or thy teeth, saith one {a} to a neuter, and loathing this batlike nature, be what thou art, either a bird or a beast.

{a} Dr Hall, Epist. to W. L.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the stork,..... A bird of passage, Jer 8:7…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. The stork] חסידה chasidah, from חסד chasad,…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 11:19. The bat — Moses begins his catalogue…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Heron, or "stork," noted for the same quality: chasida,…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the stork--a bird of benevolent temper and held in…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. The stork — Its Hebrew name, chasidah, signifies…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. the stork] In the two lists, and Psa_104:17…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) And the stork.—Besides the parallel passage, Deu_14:18, the…

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