Verse Lens · Context pointer
Deuteronomy 14:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
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Role in This Section
Deuteronomy 14:7 names cud-chewing animals excluded for lacking the divided hoof.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 14:1–21
Read Deuteronomy 14:7 with 14:1–21. It names cud-chewing animals excluded for lacking the divided hoof. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Israel's identity as the LORD's children and chosen holy people frames bans on mourning cuts and a detailed map of permitted and forbidden land animals, water creatures, birds, carcasses, and cooking.
Why It Needs Context
Deuteronomy 14:7 names cud-chewing animals excluded for lacking the divided hoof. Its responsible force depends on 14:1–21; isolated from “A Holy People Practices Food Distinctions,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Deuteronomy 14:1–21 — A Holy People Practices Food DistinctionsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 14:1–21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 14:1–21
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