Deuteronomy 14:19

19 All insects with wings are unclean for you; do 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 desert owls, ospreys, cormorants,

18 storks, any kind of heron, the hoopoes, or bats.

19 All insects with wings are unclean for you; do not eat them.

20 Other things with wings are clean, and you may eat them.

21 Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Do not cook a baby goat in its mother's milk.