Deuteronomy 14:12-22

12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the osprey,
13 and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14 and every raven after his kind,
15 and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17 and the pelican, and the giereagle, and the cormorant,
18 and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 "Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself. Thou shalt give it unto the stranger who is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. "Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
22 "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Deuteronomy 14:12-22 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.

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