Deuteronomy 14:17
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New International Version (©2011)
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

New Living Translation (©2007)
the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture, the cormorant,

English Standard Version (©2001)
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

International Standard Version (©2012)
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

NET Bible (©2006)
the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
pelicans, ospreys, cormorants,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the cormorant,

American King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

American Standard Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

Darby Bible Translation
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,

English Revised Version
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

World English Bible
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

Young's Literal Translation
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:1-21 Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; The Lord hath chosen thee. He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; and thus were believers chosen, Eph 1:4. Here is adoption; Ye are the children of the Lord your God; not because God needed children, but because they were orphans, and needed a father. Every spiritual Israelite is indeed a child of God, a partaker of his nature and favour. Here is sanctification; Thou art a holy people. God's people are required to be holy, and if they are holy, they are indebted to the grace God which makes them so. Those whom God chooses to be his children, he will form to be a holy people, and zealous of good works. They must be careful to avoid every thing which might disgrace their profession, in the sight of those who watch for their halting. Our heavenly Father forbids nothing but for our welfare. Do thyself no harm; do not ruin thy health, thy reputation, thy domestic comforts, thy peace of mind. Especially do not murder thy soul. Do not be the vile slave of thy appetites and passions. Do not render all around thee miserable, and thyself wretched; but aim at that which is most excellent and useful. The laws which regarded many sorts of flesh as unclean, were to keep them from mingling with their idolatrous neighbours. It is plain in the gospel, that these laws are now done away. But let us ask our own hearts, Are we of the children of the Lord our God? Are we separate from the ungodly world, in being set apart to God's glory, the purchase of Christ's blood? Are we subjects of the work of the Holy Ghost? Lord, teach us from these precepts how pure and holy all thy people ought to live!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. gier eagle—The Hebrew word Rachemah is manifestly identical with Rachamah, the name which the Arabs give to the common vulture of Western Asia and Egypt (Neophron percnopterus). [See on [136]Le 11:18].

cormorant—rather, the plungeon; a seafowl. [See on [137]Le 11:17].

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Clean and Unclean Animals
…16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, 18And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. …

Leviticus 11:13 "'These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
Deuteronomy 14:18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.