Deuteronomy 14:3
New International Version
Do not eat any detestable thing.

New Living Translation
“You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean.

English Standard Version
“You shall not eat any abomination.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

New King James Version
“You shall not eat any detestable thing.

New American Standard Bible
“You shall not eat any detestable thing.

NASB 1995
“You shall not eat any detestable thing.

NASB 1977
“You shall not eat any detestable thing.

Legacy Standard Bible
“You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Amplified Bible
“You shall not eat anything that is detestable [to the LORD and forbidden by Him].

Christian Standard Bible
“You must not eat any detestable thing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall not eat anything that is defiled.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

Contemporary English Version
Don't eat any disgusting animals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Eat not the things that are unclean.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never eat anything that is disgusting to the LORD.

Good News Translation
"Do not eat anything that the LORD has declared unclean.

International Standard Version
"You must not eat any detestable food.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Literal Standard Version
You do not eat any abomination;

Majority Standard Bible
You must not eat any detestable thing.

New American Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

NET Bible
You must not eat any forbidden thing.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

World English Bible
You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Young's Literal Translation
'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

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Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
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. 3You must not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,…

Cross References
Genesis 7:2
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Leviticus 11:2
"Say to the Israelites, 'Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:

Leviticus 20:25
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.

Ezekiel 4:14
"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."


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Leviticus 11:43
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Leviticus 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Isaiah 65:4
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

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Deuteronomy 14
1. God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning
3. What may and may not be eaten
4. of animals
9. of fishes
11. of fowls
21. That which dies of itself may not be eaten
22. Tithes of Divine Service
23. Tithes and firstborns to be eaten before the Lord
28. The third year's tithe of alms and charity














(3) Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.--That is, anything which Jehovah has pronounced abominable. The distinctions between His creatures were alike established and removed by the Creator. Yet, no doubt, they had also a sanitary purpose in relation to the chosen people.

Verse 3. - Any abominable thing. Any abomination, i.e. anything which is an abomination to the Lord, having been by him pronounced unclean and forbidden; "anything which I have put far away from you (i.e. made to be abominable to you)" (Targum Jonath.). "Every creature of God is good," and "there is nothing unclean of itself" (1 Timothy 4:4; Romans 14:14); "but by the ordinance of God, certain creatures, meats, and drinks were made unclean to the Jews... and this taught them holiness in abstaining from the impure communion with the wicked" (Ainsworth).

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Hebrew
You must not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

eat
תֹאכַ֖ל (ṯō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

detestable thing.
תּוֹעֵבָֽה׃ (tō·w·‘ê·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol


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