Deuteronomy 14:11

11 You can eat any "clean" bird.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.

Deuteronomy 14:11 In-Context

9 Many creatures live in water. You can eat all of the ones that have fins and scales.

10 But don't eat anything that doesn't have fins and scales. It isn't "clean" for you.

11 You can eat any "clean" bird.

12 But there are many birds you can't eat. They include eagles, vultures, and black vultures.

13 They include red kites, black kites and all kinds of falcons.