Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsKJV
Every raven after his kind;
ASV
every raven after its kind,
DBT
every raven after its kind;
YLT
every raven after its kind,
Every raven after his kind;
every raven after its kind,
every raven after its kind;
every raven after its kind,
Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices2
Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, &c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, &c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo (o), is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food; nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this; see Job 38:41. (o) Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
leads to
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Through
1 Kings 17:6The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
leads to
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Through
1 Kings 17:4And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
leads to
“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
Through
Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
leads to
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches5
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.