Deuteronomy 14:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. ”

• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Leviticus 11 . The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deuteronomy 14:5 The “pygarg” is a spec...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1 f. Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1 . cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, cf . Leviticus 21:5 . baldness: the custom in mournin...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  parteth the hoof. Compare Leviticus 11:2 ; Leviticus 11:8 . cleaveth the cleft. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6.

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 1-21 . God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should an...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Disfigurings for Mourning Forbidden. Clean and Unclean Meats specified 1. Practices connected with idolatry: see on Leviticus 19:27 ; Leviticus 19:28 .

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (6-8) These directions are the same given in Leviticus 11:3-8 .

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  LAWS AGAINST IDOLATROUS ACTS AND CUSTOMS Deuteronomy 13:1-18 ; Deuteronomy 14:1-29 HAVING thus set forth the law which was to crown and complete the long resistance of faithful Israel to idola...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing, Moses proceeded to give the injunctions which revealed his consciousness of this effect of worship on conduct, warning the people against specific evils and urging them anew to observance...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Concerning these precepts we had them before in Leviticus 11:2 to the Commentary on which I refer, and shall only just observe upon the repetition of them here; that though since the coming of the...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 6-8. And every beast that parted the hoof ,.... In this and the two following verses two general rules are given, by which it might be known what beasts were fit for food and what not; one is i...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Ver. 6. That parteth the hoof. ] See Trapp on " Lev 11:3...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE VAIN SHOW OF MOURNING (vs.1-2) The dignity of Israel's outward relationship to God as sons required them to act with proper dignity. The ungodly nations practiced such things as cutting thems...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. B. C. 1451.       1 Ye are the children of the L ORD you...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 14:4 ‘ These are the beasts which you (ye) may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,' These are the animals which can be used for offerings and sacrifices. They are all domestic an...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—The people were not only to suppress idolatry, but their whole life and conduct must be ruled according to their holy character and high calling. They must not, like other nations,...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 14:1 . Ye shall not cut yourselves for the dead. Jeremiah mentions the not paying these honours to the dead as a punishment: Jeremiah 16:6 . It was once a general custom among the hea...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The beasts which ye shall eat. God’s provision for man’s table I. Provision, Divine in its source. Israel could not have procured it and would not have known without Divine teaching what was go...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED . NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN . MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN . TITHES . Deuteronomy 14:1-5 Israel, as th...

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of Unclean Beasts

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• Deuteronomy 14:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Proverbs 18:1 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 1:2

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