Deuteronomy 14:12

14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, ¹  the vulture, ²  the black vulture, ³ 

Deuteronomy 27:14

The Covenant Curses

27:14 “The Levites will call out to every Israelite ⁴  with a loud voice:

Deuteronomy 28:46

28:46 These curses ⁵  will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. ⁶ 

¹ tn NEB “the griffon-vulture.”

² tn The Hebrew term פֶּרֶס (peres) describes a large vulture otherwise known as the ossifrage (cf. KJV). This largest of the vultures takes its name from its habit of dropping skeletal remains from a great height so as to break the bones apart.

³ tn The Hebrew term עָזְנִיָּה (’ozniyyah) may describe the black vulture (so NIV) or it may refer to the osprey (so NAB, NRSV, NLT), an eagle-like bird subsisting mainly on fish.

⁴ tn Heb “Israelite man.”

⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).