Deuteronomy 14:11

11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

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 These ye shall eat, of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

10 And whatever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean to you.

11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

12 But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vultur after his kind,