Deuteronomy 14:20

20 But you may eat every clean flying creature.^[a]

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, the various kinds of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

19 All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

20 But you may eat every clean flying creature.

21 "You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

22 "Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.

Footnotes

• [a] Lv 11:20-23