These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Parallel translations
- KJV These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
- BSB These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
- NKJV These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
- NASB These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
- NLT These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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Cross-references · 3
- Lev 11:2–45“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
- Acts 10:14But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
- 1 Kgs 4:23ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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