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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Deuteronomy 14:11 In-Context

9 "Of all that lives in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, these you may eat.
10 But whatever lacks fins and scales you are not to eat; it is unclean for you.
11 "You may eat any clean bird;
12 but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,
13 kites, any kind of buzzard,
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