Ezekiel 44:31
New International Version
The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead or torn by wild animals.

New Living Translation
The priests may not eat meat from any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that dies after being attacked by another animal.

English Standard Version
The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.

Berean Standard Bible
The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

King James Bible
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

New King James Version
The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.

New American Standard Bible
The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces by animals.

NASB 1995
“The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

NASB 1977
“The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

Legacy Standard Bible
The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces.

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

Christian Standard Bible
The priests may not eat any bird or animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The priests may not eat any bird or animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.”

American Standard Version
The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And anything that suffers pain or is broken, of bird or of beast, the Priests shall not eat

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the priests shall eat no bird or beast that dies of itself, or is taken of wild beasts.

Contemporary English Version
Priests must not eat any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that has been killed by a wild animal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.

English Revised Version
The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The priests must never eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or was killed by other wild animals.

Good News Translation
The priests must not eat any bird or animal that dies a natural death or is killed by another animal."

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."

JPS Tanakh 1917
The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Literal Standard Version
The priests do not eat any carcass or torn thing, from the bird or from the beast.”

Majority Standard Bible
The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

New American Bible
The priests shall not eat anything, whether bird or animal, that died naturally or was killed by wild beasts.

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 Revised Standard Version
The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or animal, that died of itself or was torn by animals.

New Heart English Bible
The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 is bird or animal.

Young's Literal Translation
Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.

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Context
The Duties of the Priests
30The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes. 31The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

Cross References
Leviticus 11:40
Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 22:8
He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 14:21
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Ezekiel 4:14
"Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."


Treasury of Scripture

The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Exodus 22:31
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

Leviticus 17:15
And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

Leviticus 22:8
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

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Ezekiel 44
1. The east gate assigned only to the prince
4. The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary
9. Idolaters incapable of the priests office
15. The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto
17. Ordinances for the priests














(31) Dead of itself, or torn.--Comp. Leviticus 22:8. The same law was binding upon all the Israelites. (Leviticus 17:15.) In the wilderness they were required to "cast it to the dogs" (Exodus 23:31); afterwards they might give it to a stranger or sell it to an alien. (Deuteronomy 14:21.)

Verse 31. - The commandment of the Mosaic Law is here renewed against eating the flesh of any fowl or beast that had either died a natural death or been mangled in the killing (comp. Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:8) - a commandment which, while enjoined specially upon the priests (Leviticus 22:8), was equally binding upon all (Exodus 20:31; Deuteronomy 14:21).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The priests
הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃ (hak·kō·hă·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3548: Priest

may not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

eat
יֹאכְל֖וּ (yō·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

bird
הָע֖וֹף (hā·‘ō·wp̄)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

or animal
הַבְּהֵמָ֑ה (hab·bə·hê·māh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

found dead
נְבֵלָה֙ (nə·ḇê·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol

or torn [by] [wild] [beasts].
וּטְרֵפָ֔ה (ū·ṭə·rê·p̄āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2966: Prey, flocks devoured by animals


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