Devarim 14:19

19 And every creeping thing that flieth is tameh (unclean) unto you; they shall not be eaten.

Devarim 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).

Devarim 14:19 In-Context

17 And the pelican, and the osprey, and the cormorant,

18 And the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

19 And every creeping thing that flieth is tameh (unclean) unto you; they shall not be eaten.

20 But of all tahor (clean) fowls ye may eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself; thou shalt give it unto the ger that is in thy she’arim, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art an Am Kadosh unto Hashem Eloheicha. Thou shalt not boil a young goat in its mother’s cholov.