King James Version
Deuteronomy 14:3 in the King James Version says “Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”
Deuteronomy 14:3 · KJV
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
For 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.
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep , and the goat,
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“any abominable thing”
H8441properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e., (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
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