Deuteronomy 14:20

20 You may eat any clean bird.

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 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.
22 "Certainly you must give a tithe [of] all the yield of your seed, {which comes forth from your field year after year}.
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