Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or of that which is torn, whether of fowl or of beast.
New American Standard Bible
The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has
King James Version
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
Holman Bible
The priests may not eat any bird or animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.
International Standard Version
However, the priests are not to eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or that has been torn apart."
A Conservative Version
The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
American Standard Version
The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
Amplified
The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.
Bible in Basic English
The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.
Julia Smith Translation
Every carcass or torn from bind and from cattle, the priests shall not eat.
King James 2000
The priests shall not eat of anything that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Any dead body or mangled carcass from the birds or from the animals, the priests shall not eat."
Modern King James verseion
The priests shall not eat of anything that died of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But no dead carrion shall the priest eat, nor such as is devoured of wild beasts, fouls or cattle."
NET Bible
The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
New Heart English Bible
The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
The Emphasized Bible
Nothing that died of itself or was torn in pieces, of bird or of beast shall be eaten by the priests.
Webster
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether of fowl or beast.
World English Bible
The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
Youngs Literal Translation
Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.
Topics
Interlinear
N@belah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 44:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Serving In The New Temple
30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every kind, and every heave-offering of every kind, of all your heave-offerings, shall be for the priests; ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest on thy house. 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or of that which is torn, whether of fowl or of beast.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 22:8
Of a dead carcase and what is torn shall he not eat, to make himself unclean therewith: I am Jehovah.
Exodus 22:31
And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Leviticus 17:15
And every soul that eateth of a dead carcase, or of that which was torn, be it one home-born, or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even: then he shall be clean.
Ezekiel 4:14
Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Romans 14:20
For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.