Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But no dead carrion shall the priest eat, nor such as is devoured of wild beasts, fouls or cattle."

New American Standard Bible

The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

shall not eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

of any thing that is dead of itself
נבלה 
N@belah 
Usage: 48

or torn
טרפה 
T@rephah 
Usage: 9

whether it be fowl
עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

Context Readings

The People Serving In The New Temple

30 The firstlings of all the first fruits, and all free will offerings shall be the priest's. Ye shall give unto the priest also the firstlings of your dough, that God may prosper the residue. 31 But no dead carrion shall the priest eat, nor such as is devoured of wild beasts, fouls or cattle."

Cross References

Leviticus 22:8

Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

Exodus 22:31

Ye shall be holy people unto me, and therefore shall ye eat no flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. But shall cast it to dogs."

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayest sell it unto an Alien. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Leviticus 17:15

And whatsoever soul it be that eateth that which died alone or that which was torn with wild beasts: whether it be one of yourselves or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean unto the even, and then is he clean.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then said I, "O LORD God: Behold, my soul was yet never stained, for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth."

Romans 14:20

Destroy not the work of God for a little meat's sake. All things are pure: but it is evil for that man, which eateth with hurt of his conscience.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.

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