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Deuteronomy 14:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" But of all clean fowls ye may eat. "
Deuteronomy 14:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
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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."
Deuteronomy 14:2
"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."
Deuteronomy 14:3
"Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing."
Deuteronomy 14:4
"These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,"
Deuteronomy 14:5
"The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois."
Deuteronomy 14:6
"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."
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