Deuteronomy 14:13-23

13 and the glede and the kite and the vulture after his kind
14 and every raven after his kind
15 and the owl and the night hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kind
16 the little owl and the great owl and the swan
17 and the pelican and the gier eagle and the cormorant
18 and the stork and the heron after her kind and the lapwing and the bat.
19 And every serpent that flies shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that died of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it, or thou may sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother’s milk.
22 Thou shalt without fail tithe all the increase of thy seed that thy field brings forth each year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose for his name to dwell, the tithe of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy cows and of thy sheep, that thou may learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

Deuteronomy 14:13-23 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.

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