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 the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 "And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.

20 "You may eat any clean bird.

21 "You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so 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 young goat in its mother's milk.

22 "You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.