These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Parallel translations
- WEB These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
- 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,
- NLT These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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Quick answer
The ox, sheep, and goat head the list of animals Israel may eat. God specifies which creatures are clean for food.
Overview
Moses begins the catalog of permitted animals with the common domestic livestock of Israel. These familiar clean animals were also those used in sacrifice, reinforcing the link between daily life and worship. The dietary distinctions, later removed in Christ, served to school Israel in the difference between clean and unclean, holy and common.
Cross-references & the web
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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