Leviticus
King James Version (KJV)
Leviticus 11:12
“Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.”
King James Version (KJV)
Leviticus 11:12 Context
9These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. 13And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 14And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; 15Every raven after his kind;
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Other Translations
Whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales in the waters, that shalbe an abomination vnto you.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.
- Basic English Bible
Whatever in the waters hath no fins and scales, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Darby Bible
Whatever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you.
- Webster's Bible
Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
- World English Bible
`Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it [is] to you.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.
- Basic English Bible
Whatever in the waters hath no fins and scales, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Darby Bible
Whatever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you.
- Webster's Bible
Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
- World English Bible
`Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it [is] to you.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Leviticus 11:12
11:11 Unto you - This clause is added to shew that they were neither abominable in their own nature, nor for the food of other nations; and consequently when the partition - wall between Jews and Gentiles was taken away, these distinctions of meat were to cease.
11:13 Among the fowls - The true signification of the following Hebrew words is now lost, as the Jews at this day confess; which not falling out without God's singular providence may intimate the cessation of this law, the exact observation whereof since Christ came is become impossible. In general, this may be observed, that the fowls forbidden in diet, are all either ravenous and cruel, or such as delight in the night and darkness, or such as feed upon impure things; and so the signification of these prohibitions is manifest, to teach men to abominate all cruelty or oppression, and all works of darkness and filthiness. The ossifrage and the osprey - Two peculiar kinds of eagles, distinct from that which being the chief of its kind, is called by the name of the whole kind.