Deuteronomy 14:12-22

12 These are the exceptions, so don't eat these: eagle, vulture, black vulture,

13 kite, falcon, the buzzard family,

14 the raven family,

15 ostrich, nighthawk, the hawk family,

16 little owl, great owl, white owl,

17 pelican, osprey, cormorant,

18 stork, the heron family, hoopoe, bat.

19 Winged insects are ritually unclean; don't eat them.

20 But ritually clean winged creatures are permitted.

21 Because you are a people holy to God, your God, don't eat anything that you find dead. You can, though, give it to a foreigner in your neighborhood for a meal or sell it to a foreigner. Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk.

22 Make an offering of ten percent, a tithe, of all the produce which grows in your fields year after year.

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.