Deuteronomy 14:11

11 "All [of] [the] birds [that] [are] clean you may eat.

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 "This [is what] you shall eat from all that [is] in the water: {everything} {that has fins and scales} you may eat.
10 But {anything that does not have} fins and scales, you may not eat, [for] it [is] unclean for you.
11 "All [of] [the] birds [that] [are] clean you may eat.
12 Now these [are] the ones you shall not eat {any of them}: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,
13 and the red kite and the black kite or {any kind of falcon},
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