Deuteronomy 14:11

11 You may eat any clean bird,

Deuteronomy 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:11

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
] Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides ^F16 observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

Deuteronomy 14:11 In-Context

9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

11 You may eat any clean bird,

12 but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

13 the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,