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Deuteronomy 14:4 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 14 · verse 4
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,Deuteronomy 14:4 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 14:4 in context
2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- beastsbᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beastH929 →
- sheepseha member of a flockH7716 →
- sheepkeseba young sheepH3775 →
- eatʼâkalto eatH398 →
- oxshôwra bullockH7794 →
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Moses here tells the people of Israel, I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee, v: 2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-21