KJV King James Version
These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Deuteronomy 14:4
These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
WEB World English Bible
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
ASV American Standard Version
These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
this is the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 14
1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.
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Cross-references
Leviticus 11:2-45Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.1 Kings 4:23Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.Acts 10:14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
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