Deuteronomy 14:12-22

12 But here are the birds that you should never eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

13 buzzards, all types of kites,

14 all types of crows,

15 ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

16 little owls, great owls, barn owls,

17 pelicans, ospreys, cormorants,

18 storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

19 Every swarming, winged insect is also unclean for you. They must never be eaten.

20 However, you may eat any [other kind of] flying creature that is clean.

21 Never eat any creature that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigners who live in your cities, and they may eat it. You may also sell it to foreigners who are visiting. But you are people who are holy to the LORD your God. Never cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

22 Every year be sure to save a tenth of the crops harvested from whatever you plant in your fields.

Deuteronomy 14:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 14

In this chapter some cautions are given against the use of some rites and ceremonies in mourning for the dead, with the reason thereof, De 14:1,2 and instructions about what are lawful to be eaten, and what not, whether of beasts, fishes, or fowl, De 14:3-21, and concerning eating one sort of tithes both at the place God should choose, and within their own gates, De 14:22-29.