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Deuteronomy 14:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales. "

Deuteronomy 14:9

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7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

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Leviticus 11:9

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"“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat."

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Leviticus 11:12

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"Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you."

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Deuteronomy 12:22

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"Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike."

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Deuteronomy 12:15

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"Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer."

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Revelation 19:18

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"that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”"

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Genesis 9:4

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"But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat."

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Deuteronomy 14:1

"You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."

Deuteronomy 14:2

"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."

Deuteronomy 14:3

"You shall not eat any abominable thing."

Deuteronomy 14:4

"These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,"

Deuteronomy 14:5

"the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois."

Deuteronomy 14:6

"Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat."

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