Deuteronomy 14:10-20

10 eat ye not those things that be without fins and scales, for those be unclean.

11 Eat ye all clean birds;

12 (but) eat ye not unclean birds, that is, an eagle, and a gripe, and an aliet,

13 an heron, and a vulture, and a kite by his kind,

14 and all thing of ravens? kind,

15 and a struthio, and a night crow, and a lari, and an hawk by his kind,

16 a falcon, and a swan, and a ciconia,

17 and a dipper, a porphyrio, and a rearmouse, a cormorant,

18 and a calidris, all in their kind; also a lapwing and a bat.

19 And all thing that creepeth, and hath fins, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten. (And all insects that both creep and fly, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.)

20 Eat ye all thing (that creepeth,) and that is clean; (But ye can eat all clean insects.)

Deuteronomy 14:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 14

In this chapter some cautions are given against the use of some rites and ceremonies in mourning for the dead, with the reason thereof, De 14:1,2 and instructions about what are lawful to be eaten, and what not, whether of beasts, fishes, or fowl, De 14:3-21, and concerning eating one sort of tithes both at the place God should choose, and within their own gates, De 14:22-29.