📜WEB · Deuteronomy 14:18
What does Deuteronomy 14:18 mean?
"the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat."
— Deuteronomy 14:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,
the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
Of all clean birds you may eat.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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