Deuteronomy 14:3 “You must not eat any detestable thing.”

Deuteronomy 14:3

You must not eat any detestable thing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

World English Bible

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt eate no maner of abomination.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Young's Literal Translation

'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

Bible in Basic English

No disgusting thing may be your food.

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Cross references

“Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”

Ezekiel 4:14 Leviticus 11:43 Leviticus 20:25 Romans 14:14 Isaiah 65:4 Acts 10:12–14

Ezekiel 4:14 · BSB

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

Leviticus 11:43 · BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Leviticus 20:25 · BSB

You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

Romans 14:14 · BSB

I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

Isaiah 65:4 · BSB

sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

Acts 10:12–14 · BSB

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

4These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

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