Deuteronomy 14:10

10 But if it doesn't have fins or scales, you may not eat it. It's ritually unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:10 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:10

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 14:9)

Deuteronomy 14:10 In-Context

8 And pigs: Don't eat pigs - they have a cloven hoof but don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don't even touch a pig's carcass.
9 This is what you may eat from the water: anything that has fins and scales.
10 But if it doesn't have fins or scales, you may not eat it. It's ritually unclean.
11 You may eat any ritually clean bird.
12 These are the exceptions, so don't eat these: eagle, vulture, black vulture,
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