Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But no dead carrion shall the priest eat, nor such as is devoured of wild beasts, fouls or cattle."
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 44:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Serving In The New Temple
30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house. 31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
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Cross References
Leviticus 22:8
He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.
Exodus 22:31
"You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Leviticus 17:15
"'Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
Ezekiel 4:14
And I said, "Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth."
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.