Deuteronomy 14:19

19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

Deuteronomy 14:19 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:19

And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean
Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;

``all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''

(See Gill on Leviticus 11:20), (See Gill on Leviticus 11:21).

Deuteronomy 14:19 In-Context

17 and the ka`at, and the rakham, and the shalakh,

18 and the khasidah, and the anafah after its kind, and the dukifat, and the atalef.

19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.