Leviticus 11:13
New International Version
“’These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

New Living Translation
“These are the birds that are detestable to you. You must never eat them: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

English Standard Version
“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Berean Standard Bible
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

King James Bible
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

New King James Version
‘And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

New American Standard Bible
‘Moreover, these you shall detest among the birds; they are detestable, not to be eaten: the eagle, the vulture, and the buzzard,

NASB 1995
‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

NASB 1977
‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Legacy Standard Bible
‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Amplified Bible
‘These you shall detest among the birds; they are not to be eaten, for they are hated things: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Christian Standard Bible
“You are to abhor these birds. They must not be eaten because they are abhorrent: eagles, bearded vultures, Egyptian vultures,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to detest these birds. They must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

American Standard Version
And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And reject these things from the birds and they shall not be eaten because they are defiled: the eagle and the vulture,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these are the things which ye shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey,

English Revised Version
And these ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier eagle, and the ospray;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

International Standard Version
"These are detestable things for you among winged creatures that you are not to eat, because they are detestable for you: the eagle, vulture, osprey,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray;

Literal Standard Version
And these you detest of the bird—they are not eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

Majority Standard Bible
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

New American Bible
Of the birds, these you shall loathe; they shall not be eaten, they are loathsome: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

NET Bible
"'These you are to detest from among the birds--they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

New Revised Standard Version
These you shall regard as detestable among the birds. They shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

New Heart English Bible
"'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

Webster's Bible Translation
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

World English Bible
“‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Young's Literal Translation
And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they are: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
12Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you. 13Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 14the kite, any kind of falcon,…

Cross References
Leviticus 11:11
They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11:12
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:14
the kite, any kind of falcon,

Deuteronomy 14:12
but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Zechariah 5:9
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.


Treasury of Scripture

And these are they which you shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

Deuteronomy 14:12-20
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, …

Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

the ossifrage.

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Leviticus 11
1. What animals may be eaten
4. and what may not be eaten
9. What fishes
13. What fowls
29. The creeping things which are unclean














(13) Ye shall have in abomination among the fowls.--The third of the four great divisions of the animal kingdom--viz., the birds of the air, in accordance with their proper sequence--is discussed in Leviticus 11:13-19. It will be seen that, whilst in the case of the two preceding divisions of the animal kingdom certain signs are given by which to distinguish the clean from the unclean animals, in the division before us a list is simply given of the birds which are unclean and prohibited. This absence of all criteria is all the more remarkable, since after some of the birds mentioned it is added "after his kind," or "after her kind" (see Leviticus 11:14-16; Leviticus 11:19), thus showing that kindred species were included in the prohibition, and that it was left to those who had to administer this law, to lay down some general signs by which the proscribed species are to be known. Hence the following rules obtained during the second Temple. Those birds are unclean (1) which snatch their food in the air, and devour it without first dropping it on the ground; (2) which strike with their talons and press down with their foot the prey to the ground, and then tear off pieces with their beak for consumption; (3) which "divide their feet" when standing on an extended rope or branch, placing two toes on the one side and two on the other, and not three in front and one behind; and (4) whose eggs are equally narrow or equally round at both ends, and have the white in the middle and the yolk around it.

The eagle.--As the king of the birds, the eagle stands first in the list. It denotes here all the species of the eagle proper. Arabian writers, scientific travellers, and the most distinguished naturalists, concur in their testimony that the eagle eats carrion when it is still fresh, thus harmonizing with the description in Job 39:10; Proverbs 30:17; Matthew 24:28, &c. The assertion, therefore, that the bird here meant is the Egyptian vulture, because the eagle disdains dead bodies and feeds only on what it kills itself, is erroneous. Besides the kindred dialects, all the ancient versions and the best Hebrew scholars place it beyond a doubt that Nesher here denotes eagle. Afterwards, however, the carrion-kite and the golden vulture were also reckoned among the different species of eagles. Hence the allusion in Micah 1:16. . . .

Verses 13-19. - The unclean birds are those which are gross feeders, devourers of flesh or offal, and therefore offensive to the taste, beginning with the eagle and vulture tribe. It is probable that the words translated owl (verse 16), night hawk (verse 16), cuckow (verse 16) should be rendered, ostrich, owl, gull, and perhaps for swan (verse 18), heron (verse 19), lapwing (verse 19), should be substituted ibis, great plover, hoopoe. In the case of the bat, we have again phenomenal language used. Being generally regarded as a bird, it is classed with birds.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Additionally,
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

you are to detest
תְּשַׁקְּצ֣וּ (tə·šaq·qə·ṣū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8262: To be filthy, to loathe, pollute

the following
אֵ֙לֶּה֙ (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

birds,
הָע֔וֹף (hā·‘ō·wp̄)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

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

be eaten
יֵאָכְל֖וּ (yê·’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

because they
הֵ֑ם (hêm)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

are detestable:
שֶׁ֣קֶץ (še·qeṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8263: Detestation, detestable thing

the eagle,
הַנֶּ֙שֶׁר֙ (han·ne·šer)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5404: The eagle

the bearded vulture,
הַפֶּ֔רֶס (hap·pe·res)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6538: (a bird of prey) perhaps bearded vulture

the black vulture,
הָעָזְנִיָּֽה׃ (hā·‘ā·zə·nî·yāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5822: (a bird of prey) perhaps vulture


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