Deuteronomy 14:11

11 You are allowed to eat any clean bird.

Deuteronomy 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:11

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
] Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides ^F16 observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

Deuteronomy 14:11 In-Context

9 Here's a list of the water animals you are allowed to eat: you can eat anything that has fins and scales.

10 But you aren't allowed to eat anything that lacks scales or fins. These are off-limits for you.

11 You are allowed to eat any clean bird.

12 Here's a list of those you are not allowed to eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

13 the red kite, the black kite, and any kind of bird of prey,