Deuteronomy 14:11

11 "You may eat every 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 "You may eat everything from the water that has 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 every clean bird,
12 but these are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
13 the kite, the various kinds of falcon,
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