Deuteronomy 14:19

19 And [also] all [of] {the winged insects}; they [are] unclean for you; you shall not eat [them].

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 desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant,

18 and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 And [also] all [of] {the winged insects}; they [are] unclean for you; you shall not eat [them].

20 You may eat any clean bird.

21 "You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who [is] in your {towns}, and he may eat it, or you may sell [it] to a foreigner, for you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the swarmer[s] of the flyer[s]" or "all the swarms [of things] that fly"