Leviticus 11:13
And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
14and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
Cross References
Job 28:7No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.
Job 39:27Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
Jeremiah 4:22For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour.
Romans 1:28And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:10-20
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the… Read the whole commentary →