Deuteronomy 14:19

19 Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten.

Deuteronomy 14:19 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:19

And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean
Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;

``all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''

(See Gill on Leviticus 11:20), (See Gill on Leviticus 11:21).

Deuteronomy 14:19 In-Context

17 pelicans, ospreys, cormorants,

18 storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

19 Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten.

20 However, you may eat any [other kind of] flying creature that is clean.

21 Never eat any creature that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigners who live in your cities, and they may eat it. You may also sell it to foreigners who are visiting. But you are people who are holy to the LORD your God. Never cook a young goat in its mother's milk.