Deuteronomy 14:20

20 Any clean winged creature can be eaten, however.

Deuteronomy 14:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:20

But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
] Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is

``every clean locust ye may eat;''

see ( Leviticus 11:22 ) .

Deuteronomy 14:20 In-Context

18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 Also, all winged insects are off-limits for you. They are not to be eaten.
20 Any clean winged creature can be eaten, however.
21 You must not eat any decayed animal flesh because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You can give decayed animal flesh to the immigrants who live in your cities, and they can eat it; or you can sell it to foreigners. Don't cook a lamb in its own mother's milk.
22 You must reserve a tenth part of whatever your fields produce each year.
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