📜WEB · Deuteronomy 14:19
What does Deuteronomy 14:19 mean?
"All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten."
— Deuteronomy 14:19 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
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